Create LANDING PAGE with 3-D Effect
Tags: html, javascript, css, tutorial
Published: 2021-07-17 07:50:41

In this article I am going to show you how to add 3-D effects to a Landing Page using __HTML, CSS and JavaScript__. You can add 3-D effects to give your website a _bold navigation_ and also show off your skills of better usability standards. _Unique and beautiful_ effects are what can easily make people stop and take notice, increasing the time they spend on the site.

##Step 1: Create HTML File 
This is a basic layout of a landing page, further we are going to add effects using _CSS and JavaScript_.

```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>3D Navbar Animation</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="navbar">
        <div class="menu">
          <h3 class="logo">Rajshree<span>Vats</span></h3>
          <div class="hamburger-menu">
            <div class="bar"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <div class="main-container">
        <div class="main">
          <header>
            <div class="overlay">
              <div class="inner">
                <h2 class="title"> Imagination creates reality</h2>
                <p>
                  Hello, This is a sample landing page with 3-D navigation bar.
                  Created using HTML,CSS and JAVASCRIPT. I hope you like it.
                </p>
                <button class="btn">Read more</button>
              </div>
            </div>
          </header>
        </div>
```
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kgry1hyjlpk15047tc8z.jpg)

##Step 2: Styling Layout and Hamburger menu
This will style our html elements.
```css
* {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body,
button {
  font-family: "Poppins", sans-serif;
}

.container {
  min-height: 100vh;
  width: 100%;
  background-image: url(bg2.png);
  
  overflow-x: hidden;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

.navbar {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  z-index: 10;
  height: 3rem;
}

.menu {
  max-width: 72rem;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 2rem;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  color: #fff;
}

.logo {
  font-size: 1.1rem;
  font-weight: 600;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  line-height: 4rem;
}

.logo span {
  font-weight: 300;
}

.hamburger-menu {
  height: 4rem;
  width: 3rem;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: flex-end;
}

.bar {
  width: 1.9rem;
  height: 1.5px;
  border-radius: 2px;
  background-color: #eee;
  transition: 0.5s;
  position: relative;
}

.bar:before,
.bar:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  width: inherit;
  height: inherit;
  background-color: #eee;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

.bar:before {
  transform: translateY(-9px);
}

.bar:after {
  transform: translateY(9px);
}

.main {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  left: 0;
  z-index: 5;
  overflow: hidden;
  transform-origin: left;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

header {
  min-height: 100vh;
  width: 100%;
  background: url("bg1.png") no-repeat top center / cover;
  position: relative;
}

.overlay {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.inner {
  max-width: 35rem;
  text-align: center;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 0 2rem;
}

.title {
  font-size: 2rem;
}

.btn {
  margin-top: 1rem;
  padding: 0.6rem 1.8rem;
  background-color: #1179e7;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 25px;
  color: #fff;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  cursor: pointer;
  text-decoration: none;
}
```

##Step 3 : The Javascript Code
 
To add __animation__, we need to add a __class__ called __active__ to the container element and remove it every time _hamburger menu_ is clicked on.

```javascript
const hamburger_menu = document.querySelector(".hamburger-menu");
const container = document.querySelector(".container");

hamburger_menu.addEventListener("click", () => {
  container.classList.toggle("active");
});
```

##Step 4: Styling __active__ class
After this Let's style the container element and add animation using css -

```css

.container.active .bar {
  transform: rotate(360deg);
  background-color: transparent;
}

.container.active .bar:before {
  transform: translateY(0) rotate(45deg);
}

.container.active .bar:after {
  transform: translateY(0) rotate(-45deg);
}

.container.active .main {
  animation: main-animation 0.5s ease;
  cursor: pointer;
  transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(310px) scale(0.5);
}

@keyframes main-animation {
  from {
    transform: translate(0);
  }

  to {
    transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(310px) scale(0.5);
  }
}
```
We are done with the 3-D transformation.

####Now, add shadow effect to the image

```css
.shadow {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transform-origin: left;
  transition: 0.5s;
  background-color: white;
}

.shadow.one {
  z-index: -1;
  opacity: 0.15;
}

.shadow.two {
  z-index: -2;
  opacity: 0.1;
}

.container.active .shadow.one {
  animation: shadow-one 0.6s ease-out;
  transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(215px) scale(0.5);
}

@keyframes shadow-one {
  0% {
    transform: translate(0);
  }

  5% {
    transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(310px) scale(0.5);
  }

  100% {
    transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(215px) scale(0.5);
  }
}

.container.active .shadow.two {
  animation: shadow-two 0.6s ease-out;
  transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(120px) scale(0.5);
}

@keyframes shadow-two {
  0% {
    transform: translate(0);
  }

  20% {
    transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(310px) scale(0.5);
  }

  100% {
    transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(120px) scale(0.5);
  }
}

.container.active .main:hover + .shadow.one {
  transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(230px) scale(0.5);
}

.container.active .main:hover {
  transform: perspective(1300px) rotateY(20deg) translateZ(340px) scale(0.5);
}
```

##Step 5: Adding and styling Menu links 

```html
 <div class="links">
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.05s;">Home</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.1s;">Services</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.15s;">Portfolio</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.2s;">Testimonials</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.25s;">  About</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="#" style="--i: 0.3s;">  Contact</a>
            <span>  </span>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
```
####Let's __style__ links 

```css
.links {
  position: absolute;
  width: 20%;
  right: 2em;
  top: 0;
  height: 100vh;
  z-index: 2;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

ul {
  list-style: none;
}
ul li a .fa{
  font-size: 40px;
  color:black;
  line-height: 80px;
  transition: 0.5s;
  padding-right: 14px;
}
ul li a{
  text-decoration: none;
  display:absolute;
  display: block;
  width:160px;
  height:60px;
  background:#609aca;
  text-align:centre;
  padding-left: 20px;
  transform: rotate(0deg) skewX(25deg) translate(0,0);
  transition: 0.5s;
  box-shadow: -20px 20px 10px rgba(0,0,0,3);
}
ul li a:before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  top: 10px;
  left: -20px;
  height: 100%;
  width:20px;
  background:#b1b1b1;
  transform:0.5s;
  transform:rotate(0deg) skewY(-45deg);

}
ul li a:before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  top: 6px;
  left: -10px;
  height: 100%;
  width:10px;
  background:#dbe7f0;
  transform:0.5s;
  transform:rotate(0deg) skewY(-45deg);

}
ul li a:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -10px;
  left: -6px;
  height: 10px;
  width:100%;
  background:#dbe7f0;
  transform:0.5s;
  transform:rotate(0deg) skewX(-45deg);

}
ul li a:hover {
  transform:rotate(-30deg) skew(25deg) translate(20px,-15px);
  box-shadow: -50px 50px 50px rgba(0,0,0,0);
}
ul li a:hover .fa {
  color: #fff;
}
ul li:hover span{
  color: #fff;
}
ul li:hover a{
  background: #9b154c;
}
ul li:hover a:before{
  background: #7B153F;
}
ul li:hover a:after{
  background: #9b154c;
}


.links a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: black;
  padding: 0.7rem 0;
  display: flex;
  display: block;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  font-weight: 200;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: 0px;
  transition: 0.3s;
  opacity: 0;
  transform: translateY(10px);
  animation: hide 0.5s forwards ease;
}

.links a:hover {
  color: #fff;
}

.container.active .links a {
  animation: appear 0.5s forwards ease var(--i);
}
```
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/332n6boz4jsqal0muxp6.jpg)

View the Final Version of this page [here](https://rajshreevats.github.io/3-d-navigation-bar.github.io/)


Hopefully this tutorial was fun and worth your while. Get the full Source Code [here](https://github.com/RajshreeVats/3-d-navigation-bar.github.io) on my [Github](https://github.com/RajshreeVats) __Repo__.

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