Animated Search Box using HTML CSS & JavaScript | Elastic Animation on Search Bar

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2 min readSep 4, 2020

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Animated Search Box using HTML CSS & JavaScript | Elastic Animation on Search Bar
Animated Search Box using HTML CSS & JavaScript | Elastic Animation on Search Bar

Hello readers, Today in this blog you’ll learn how to create an Animated Search Box/Bar using HTML CSS & JavaScript. Earlier I have shared a blog on how to create FullScreen Overlay Search Box Animation using only HTML & CSS and now it’s time to create an Elastic Animation on Search Bar with JavaScript.

Search box is the most important graphical element present in every website. It works as the field for a query input or searches term from the user to search and retrieve related data from the database. A simple search bar can make using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript only.

In this program [Animated Search Box], at first, on the webpage, there is only a search icon and when you click on that icon, then the search input appears with an elastic animation. When you type something and click on the search icon, your typed data is shown on the bottom of the search bar. There is also shown a cancel or hide icon [cross sign icon] and when you click on that cancel icon, the visible search input and your typed data will be hidden.

If you’re feeling difficult to understand what I am saying. You can watch a full video tutorial on this program [Elastic Animation on Search Bar].

Video Tutorial of Elastic Animation on Search Bar

Video Tutorial of Elastic Animation on Search Bar

In the video, you have seen an Animated Search Bar and I hope you’ve understood the basic codes behind creating this program. I used pure JavaScript to create this search bar so if you’re a beginner and you know a little bit JavaScript, then you can easily create this type of search bar animation.

If you have knowledge of backend languages like PHP then you can add PHP code and connect this search box with the database to retrieve data according to the user queries. I believe this small search bar program will help you a lot. If you like this program [Elastic Animation on Search Bar] and want to get source codes. You can easily get the source codes of this program.

Animated Search Box [Source Codes]

To create this program [Elastic Animation on Search Bar]. First, you need to create two Files one HTML File and another one is CSS File. After creating these files just paste these following codes in your file. You can also download the source code files through the given link. Click here to download source code files.

Originally published at https://www.codingnepalweb.com on September 4, 2020.

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