content/snippets/css/s/alternating-text.md
---
title: Alternating text
type: snippet
language: css
tags: [animation]
cover: italian-horizon
dateModified: 2023-05-25
---
Creates an alternating text animation.
- Create a `<span>` for the text that will be alternated.
- Define an animation, `alternating-text`, that makes the `<span>` disappear by setting `display: none`.
- In JavaScript, define an array of the different words that will be alternated and use the first word to initialize the content of the `<span>`.
- Use `EventTarget.addEventListener()` to define an event listener for the `'animationiteration'` event. This will run the event handler whenever an iteration of the animation is completed.
- Use `Element.innerHTML` to display the next element in the array as the content of the `<span>`.
```html
<p>I love coding in <span class="alternating" id="alternating-text"></span>.</p>
```
```css
.alternating {
animation-name: alternating-text;
animation-duration: 3s;
animation-iteration-count: infinite;
animation-timing-function: ease;
}
@keyframes alternating-text {
90% {
display: none;
}
}
```
```js
const texts = ['Java', 'Python', 'C', 'C++', 'C#', 'Javascript'];
const element = document.getElementById('alternating-text');
let i = 0;
const listener = e => {
i = i < texts.length - 1 ? i + 1 : 0;
element.innerHTML = texts[i];
};
element.innerHTML = texts[0];
element.addEventListener('animationiteration', listener, false);
```