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Learn how to use hover interactions and states in Webflow

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Hover

Let's start with selecting the first Tab Link. Make sure to select one without the Current class. Click on the dropdown in the Selector input field and choose Hover. Change the border-color to #4E5AC2 for when the user hovers over a Tab Link.

Transitions

Click on the Tab Link that doesn't have the Current class and scroll down to Transitions. Add a new Transition and select All Properties in the Type dropdown ( this means it'll auto transition every property). Set the Duration to 500. Although, we selected All Properties, our transitions might conflict. To resolve this, we'll select Border from the Type dropdown because it's the only thing we'd like to animate.

Animating Selected State

Select the Tab Link that has the Current class and add Hover to it. Set the background-color to white, color to black and border to transparent. Now, add Box Shadow. Set angle to 180, distance to 10, blur to 20 and A in color to 15%.

Animation

Start by selecting the Tab Link without the Current or Hover class. Go to Transitions, add one for Font-Size and set the duration to 500. Add one for Background Color, Box Shadow, Font Color and Background Position, set the duration for all to 500.

Combo Class

Right-click on the Tab Menu and duplicate it. The second menu has the same class and properties as the first Tab Menu. To change the positioning of the second tab, we'll create a Combo Class. Select the 1st Tabs Menu and add a class named Second to it. This Combo Class is going to be specific to the Tabs Menu, which means it's not reusable anywhere else.

Aligning Second Menu

Select the first Tabs Menu. Give it a margin-top of -240 and a margin-left of 320. Select the last Tab Link and duplicate it thrice. Rename the new Links to Color, Material and Shadow.

Hiding Elements

Now, we'll hide the Links that contain device names. Simply, select the first Link and add the Hidden class to it. Set the Display to None. Apply the hidden class to the other 3 Links as well.

Tabs Menu Container

Click on the Tabs Menu Container and duplicate it. Select the first Tabs Menu Container and add the Second class to it. Set its width to 220 and height to 190. Set margin-top to -240 and margin-left to 300. Set the background-color to white. Add the box-shadow, set the color to black and A to 15%.

Tab Links

For the 2nd Menu Tab Links, select one that does not have the Current class and add the Second class to it. Set color to #6C6A8E, font-size to 20 and the font-weight to Semi Bold. Align it to the Left. Set padding-left to 100 and in Backgrounds, set the top position to 50% and the left position to 55px. Now, apply the Second class to the other 2 links.

Adding Icons

We want to add specific icons for both Shadow and Material. To do this, we'll start by adding more Combo classes. Add a class named Shadow to the Shadow link and change the background-image to Icon-Shadow.svg. Do the same for the other two links, add the Material class to Material and change the background-image to Icon-Style.svg and for Color, add a Color class and set Icon-Color as the background-image.

Customizing Animation

In this step, we'll customize animation of the current state. Go to Tabs Content and select the 5th one. Remove the Color class from it and change the left position to 45. As you can see, Webflow is a very powerful tool that gives you a lot of options when it comes to setting up your own transitions and animations. We urge you to play around with the other options as well.

Adding Images to Links

Lastly, we'll change the image for the three new Tab Links we added. Select Color and add the iPhone Gold image to it. For Materials, go to Tab 6, click on image and add the iPhone Green image to it. Finally, for Tab 7, add the image with the shadow. Now, publish your site and test the recent changes.

Conclusion

We learned a lot a lot in this section including transitions, animation and Combo Classes. We hope that you'll enjoy creating your own layout based on the one we just created. In the next section, we'll learn how to animate using skew and move to create a fun 3D perspective.

Steps

Tab Link Hover

Select Tab Link

Select State to Hover

Border Color #4e5ac2

Transition

Select None state

Create Transition, set to Border, duration 500ms

Current Hover

Select Current and Hover

Background white

Color Black

Border Color Transparent

Outer Shadow 180deg, 10px, 20px, 15%

Tab Link Transition

Font-size 500ms

Background-Color 500ms

Box-Shadow 500ms

Tab Link Current Transition

Background-Position 500ms

Font-color 500ms

Duplicate Tabs Menu

Duplicate Tab Links

Duplicate Tab Link 3 times

Color, Material, Shadow

Second Tabs Menu

Add Class "Second"

Margin Top -240, Left 320

Create Class "Hidden"

Apply "Hidden" to first 4 Tab Links

Duplicate Tabs Menu Container

Create combo class "Second"

220 x 190px

Margin Top -240, Left 300

Background White

Outer Shadow, change color to black 15%

Change Tab Links

Add combo class "Second"

Font 20px, Semi Bold, Color #6c6a8e

Align Left

Padding Left 100px

Background Left 55px, Top 50%

Apply 3 links to "Second"

Third Combo Class

Add Class "Color", Background Icon-Color.svg

Add Class "Material", Background Icon-Style.svg

Add Class "Shadow", Background Icon-Shadow.svg

Icon Transition

Select Tab Link Second Current

Background Left 45px

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