70 Best CSS Animated Backgrounds (Updated)

Lightweight yet impactful! Discover a collection of high-performing CSS background animations perfect for modern UIs. Code with confidence!

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1. -webkit-background-clip:text CSS effect by Jintos

Author: Jintos
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


2. Chameleon background by Roland Warmerdam

Author: Roland Warmerdam
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


3. Pure CSS background animation by Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman

Author: Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


4. Hexagon Background with 0 HTML by Temani Afif

Author: Temani Afif
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


5. CSS3 Animation: Background Color Cycle by SJ Calamia

Author: SJ Calamia
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


6. Pure CSS 3D Sky by Anthony Sanchez

Author: Anthony Sanchez
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


7. CSS Fireflies by Mike Golus

Author: Mike Golus
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


8. Canva moving background effect by Justin

Author: Justin
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


9. Floating SVGS by Rune Sejer Hoffmann

Author: Rune Sejer Hoffmann
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


10. Sépion CSS Background Animation 2 by Sépion

Author: Sépion
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


11. Bubble Float by alphardex

Author: alphardex
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


12. CSS Fireflies by Mike Golus

Author: Mike Golus
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


13. Animating Gradient With CSS by Cody Curley

Author: Cody Curley
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


14. infinite SVG Triangle Fusion by Rob DiMarzo

Author: Rob DiMarzo
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


15. ColorDrops by Nate Wiley

Author: Nate Wiley
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


16. Donuts Background by Charles Swierczek

Author: Charles Swierczek
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


17. Animated Login Background by StyleShit

Author: StyleShit
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


18. Animate Background by Marco Guglielmelli

Author: Marco Guglielmelli
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


19. Letter-spacing Animation by Naomi Hauret

Author: Naomi Hauret
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


20. Blurred Animated Gradients by Wil van der Tuin

Author: Wil van der Tuin
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


21. pure CSS twinkling stars background by Anastasia Goodwin

Author: Anastasia Goodwin
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


22. Psychedelic animated background by simon

Author: simon
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


23. CSS Only Animated Static Noise Background by Mathieu S.

Author: Mathieu S.
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


24. Everything “random()” by Unmesh Shukla

Author: Unmesh Shukla
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


25. Sliding Diagonals Background Effect by Rosy Babu

Author: Rosy Babu
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


26. CSS Only Pattern Animation by Temani Afif

Author: Temani Afif
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


27. CSS linear-gradient Animations by Ryan Mulligan

Author: Ryan Mulligan
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


28. 2kb Total Size SVG Animation by Ksenia Kondrashova

Author: Ksenia Kondrashova
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


29. NeuroFunkGrid Video Background by FrontHendrik

Author: FrontHendrik
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


30. SVG Animation Background by Yoshiyuki ITO

Author: Yoshiyuki ITO
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


31. Animal Crossing – Detail Background by Amanda Cifaldi

Author: Amanda Cifaldi
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


32. CSS Animation – Background-image-scroll by jonathan

Author: jonathan
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


33. October Falling Leaves CSS Animation (No Javascript) by Casthra Demosthene

Author: Casthra Demosthene
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


34. Pure CSS Particle Animation by Takeshi Kano

Author: Takeshi Kano
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


35. Pure Css Infinite Background Animation by kootoopas

Author: kootoopas
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


36. Animated Background Gradient by katmai7

Author: katmai7
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


37. background effect by Mert Köseoğlu

Author: Mert Köseoğlu
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


38. Blue CSS Background by Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman

Author: Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


39. Animation background #1 by Maxim

Author: Maxim
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


40. CSS Animated Background Landing Page by Tania Rascia

Author: Tania Rascia
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


41. Parallax Star background in CSS by Saransh Sinha

Author: Saransh Sinha
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


42. Pure CSS Gradient Background Animation by Manuel Pinto

Author: Manuel Pinto
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


43. Shooting Star by alphardex

Author: alphardex
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


44. Hearts animation background by Pogany

Author: Pogany
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


45. Floating Color Orbs by Alison Quaglia

Author: Alison Quaglia
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


46. Foundation 6 Animated Background by Anthony Potgieter

Author: Anthony Potgieter
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


47. Cloudy Spiral CSS animation by Hakim El Hattab

Author: Hakim El Hattab
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


48. CSS3 Animation – Background colour by Mana

Author: Mana
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


49. Background Effect by Osorina Irina

Author: Osorina Irina
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


50. Cool Mountain Background with animations – slightly responsive by Igor Milenkovic

Author: Igor Milenkovic
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


51. Sliding Diagonals Background Effect by Chris Smith

Author: Chris Smith
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


52. Pure CSS Gradient Background Animation by Manuel Pinto

Author: Manuel Pinto
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


53. Text Clip background effect by Hervé

Author: Hervé
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


54. Retro-Futuristic Grid Background in CSS by user

Author: user
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


55. Only CSS: Warning by Yusuke Nakaya

Author: Yusuke Nakaya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


56. Animation Background-Clip Text Effect – Using Only HTML & CSS by Ahmad Emran

Author: Ahmad Emran
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


57. Animated CSS mask-image gradient by Chris Neale

Author: Chris Neale
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


58. Pattern Animation (Infinite) by Adam Abundis

Author: Adam Abundis
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


59. Gradient Background with Waves by Bárbara Rodríguez

Author: Bárbara Rodríguez
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


60. Rotation & background experiment by Zach Saucier

Author: Zach Saucier
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


61. Pure CSS Particle Animation by Takeshi Kano

Author: Takeshi Kano
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


62. CSS background effect by turusuke

Author: turusuke
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


63. Simple Parallax Background Effect ( Only Css ) by MinimalCoding

Author: MinimalCoding
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


64. Bubble Background Animation by Diyorbek Olimov

Author: Diyorbek Olimov
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


65. Parallax Background Effect by Kasey Bonifacio

Author: Kasey Bonifacio
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


66. Animated Ripples background by Vaibhav Arora

Author: Vaibhav Arora
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


67. Animated Background by Sushant Sharma

Author: Sushant Sharma
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


68. Animated CSS Stars / Galaxy Background by John Garcia

Author: John Garcia
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


69. Parallax Background Image by ShaylonH

Author: ShaylonH
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS


70. Pure Css Animated Background by Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman

Author: Mohammad Abdul Mohaiman
Links: Source Code / Demo
Made with: HTML CSS JS