Turn a static SVG into a CSS-animated one — draw effects, fades, loops, and scroll reveals — by pasting your code, choosing a style, and copying the output. No signup, no JavaScript library, and no design software required.
1Add your SVG
2Animation style
3Timing & trigger
Preview
Paste this into your theme’s Additional CSS or a stylesheet.
Paste this SVG markup wherever you want the animation to appear.
Scroll-triggered animations need this small script to detect when the SVG enters the viewport. Add it once per page, right before the closing </body> tag.
How It Works
The generator reads the shapes inside your SVG — paths, circles, rects, polygons — and builds a CSS @keyframes animation around whichever style you pick.
For the draw preset, it measures the exact length of each path using the browser’s getTotalLength() method, then uses that number to drive stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset — the same technique used in hand-coded “line drawing” logo animations. Because the length is calculated once and baked into the CSS as a fixed value, the animation plays with plain CSS — no JavaScript dependency, so it works as a straight HTML + CSS snippet.
For fade, scale, slide, and rotate presets, each shape (or the whole SVG, if staggering is off) gets a CSS transform animation with transform-box: fill-box so scaling and rotation happen around the shape’s own center rather than the page origin.
Turning on Stagger each shape adds an incremental animation-delay to each element in document order — this is what makes a multi-path logo draw or fade in piece by piece instead of all at once.
Three triggers are supported: on load (plays automatically), on hover (paused by default, runs while the cursor is over the SVG), and on scroll (paused until the SVG enters the viewport, using a small IntersectionObserver snippet — the only case where any JavaScript is needed at all).
When to Use an SVG Animation
- Logo reveal on page load — a staggered draw or fade-in on a multi-path logo gives a site’s hero section a polished, custom-built feel without a video or Lottie file. Common on freelancer and agency portfolio sites.
- Icon micro-interactions — a subtle spin, pulse, or bounce on hover turns a static nav or button icon into visible feedback, without extra markup or an icon-animation library.
- Scroll-triggered feature icons — animating icons or illustrations as they scroll into view on a landing page adds motion without slowing down initial page load, since nothing plays until it’s visible.
FAQ
How do I animate an SVG path?
Paste the SVG, choose the “Draw / stroke reveal” preset, and the tool measures each path’s length and generates the stroke-dasharray / stroke-dashoffset CSS needed to animate it drawing itself on screen.
How do I create a logo animation with SVG?
Load the logo’s SVG code, pick a preset (draw usually looks best for line-based logos, fade or scale for solid marks), and turn on “Stagger each shape” so each path or letter animates in sequence rather than all at once.
Can I animate an SVG using only CSS, without JavaScript?
Yes — for on-load and on-hover animations, the generated output is pure CSS and HTML with no script required. A small JavaScript snippet is only added if you choose the “on scroll” trigger, since detecting scroll position needs it.
How do I animate an SVG icon on hover?
Choose the “Loop” preset (spin, pulse, or bounce) and set the trigger to “On hover.” The output includes a CSS rule that pauses the animation until the icon is hovered, so it stays still until someone interacts with it.
How do I animate SVG text?
If your text has been converted to paths (outlined), the draw preset animates each letter’s outline the same way it would any other path — turn on staggering for a left-to-right reveal. If the text is still a live <text> element, fade or slide presets tend to look cleaner than draw.
How do I add an animated SVG to WordPress?
Paste the generated HTML into a Custom HTML block wherever the SVG should appear, then add the generated CSS to your theme’s Additional CSS panel (Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS) or a child theme stylesheet. If you used the scroll trigger, the small JS snippet only needs to be added once per page.
Why isn’t my SVG animation showing up?
The most common cause is a missing viewBox on the original SVG, which can make the shape render at zero size. Also double-check that the CSS and HTML were both copied — the animation only works when the @keyframes CSS and the classed SVG markup are used together.