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title: "Animated Waving Hand Emoji 👋 Using CSS"
date: 2019-04-17 14:20:10-0400
description: "How to make the 👋 waving hand emoji actually wave using pure CSS animation!"
tags:
- CSS
- Animation
- Emoji
- Keyframes
- Cool Tricks
draft: false
---
# Howdy, friends! <span style="display: inline-block; animation-name: wave; animation-duration: 2.5s; animation-iteration-count: infinite; transform-origin: 70% 70%;">👋</span>
If you examine [my homepage](https://jarv.is/) 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`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@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" 👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand-sign/) emojis ***actually wave***, and a [CodePen playground](https://codepen.io/jakejarvis/pen/pBZWZw) for live testing.
{{<codepen username="jakejarvis" id="pBZWZw" left-tab="css" right-tab="result" height="400">}}
### CSS:
```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:
```html
<span class="wave">👋</span>
```
That's it! More skin tones can be [found on 📕Emojipedia](https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=waving+hand).
### <span style="display: inline-block; animation-name: wave; animation-duration: 2.5s; animation-iteration-count: infinite; transform-origin: 70% 70%;">👋🏼</span> Toodles!