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CSS Unused CSS Stages Transitions and Transforms Transitions: Part 1

Chris Kwong
Chris Kwong
10,266 Points
Posted by Chris Kwong
Chris Kwong
10,266 Points

How do I make .box keep the hitbox consistent?

When hovering the mouse over the edge of the square it will start to transition into a circle. The area where it detects the hover is no long effective on the edge and the mouse is moved the shape will automatically change back. How do I make the hover consistent between both shapes?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Chris,

I'm not sure exactly what you mean but I think you want the hover area to always be the original box.

I think that you will need 2 elements to do this. A parent element to be the size of the original box and transparent. Then a child element which will be the colored box and transition to the circle.

I saved the codepen that was linked to in this video. It shows 1 way you could do this with the ::before pseudo element instead of adding another element in the html.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LEVzyq

html:

<div class="box"></div>

css:

.box,
.box::before {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  border-radius: 15px;
}

.box {
  margin: auto;
}   

.box::before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  background: steelblue;
  -webkit-duration: .3s;
  -moz-duration: .3s;
  -o-duration: .3s;
  transition-duration: .3s;
 }

.box:hover {
  cursor: pointer;
}

.box:hover::before {
  background: lightcoral;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

Let me know if you were talking about something else.

Chris Kwong
Chris Kwong
10,266 Points
Chris Kwong
Chris Kwong
10,266 Points

Yes, that's exactly it. Thank you very much.