Howdy, friends! 👋

If you examine my homepage long enough, you might notice the 👋 hand emoji at the top subtly waving at you. This was easily accomplished using a few lines of CSS with a feature called @keyframes — no bulky GIFs involved, and no JS mess or jQuery overkill required.

Below are the code snippets you can grab and customize to make your own "waving hand" 👋 emojis actually wave, and a CodePen playground for live testing.

{{< codepen username="jakejarvis" id="pBZWZw" left-tab="css" right-tab="result" >}}

CSS:

span.wave {
  animation-name: wave-animation;    /* Refers to the name of your @keyframes element below */
  animation-duration: 2.5s;          /* Change to speed up or slow down */
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;    /* Never stop waving :) */
  transform-origin: 70% 70%;         /* Pivot around the bottom-left palm */
  display: inline-block;
}

@keyframes wave-animation {
    0% { transform: rotate(  0.0deg) }
   10% { transform: rotate(-10.0deg) }    /* The following four values can be played with to make the waving more or less extreme */
   20% { transform: rotate( 12.0deg) }
   30% { transform: rotate(-10.0deg) }
   40% { transform: rotate(  9.0deg) }
   50% { transform: rotate(  0.0deg) }    /* Reset for the last half to pause */
  100% { transform: rotate(  0.0deg) }
}

HTML:

<span class="wave">👋</span>

That's it! More skin tones can be found on 📕Emojipedia.

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Howdy, friends! 👋

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