Creating a Parallax Website Design using Pure CSS Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn to Create a Parallax Website Design using Pure CSS. The tutorial aims to provide students, self-learners, and new programmers with a reference for learning some new things that can be used to build a creative and interactive website design using Cascading Stylesheets Scripts. Here, I will be providing a simple web page source code or script that demonstrates the creation of a simple Parallax Effect/Design.

What is Parallax?

A website's surfing experience can be enhanced by implementing a Parallax Scrolling Effect and making it more engaging and dynamic. In its most basic form, parallax scrolling is a three-dimensional (3D) effect that gives a website additional depth. This kind of effect is commonly used in a single-page website.

Why use Parallax Scrolling Effect on the website?

Parallax Scrolling Effect is not a must-have feature for websites or web application landing pages. This feature is just giving the end-user a better experience while exploring the information on the site page. If you wish to develop a creative and interactive website or landing pages with a faux-3D effect, Parallax may be useful.

How to Create a Parallax Scrolling Effect using Pure CSS?

Using some CSS property and pseudo-element, we can simply achieve the Parallax Scrolling Effect. Here are some of the properties and elements that are useful for creating Parallax Scrolling:

• ::before pseudo-element
• ::after pseudo-element
• background-attachment:fixed
• position:absoulute

Example

To have a better understanding of how to use the given CSS pseudo-elements and properties to create a Parallax Scrolling Effect on an actual website page.

Interface

Assuming that the following HTML script is the sample landing page of a site. The script contains a simple navigation bar, a footer, and 3 different content sections. The script below loads the Bootstrap 5 Framework and Google Fonts CDN for some of the design of the page which means an internet connection is required in order to browse the page properly. Save the file as index.php.

In the HTML script above, we will use the #section-1, #section-2, and #section-3 content elements for Parallax Scrolling Effect.

Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) Script

The following script is the CSS code that creates the Parallax Scrolling Effect of the mentioned page sections. Save this file as styles.css and make sure to load this CSS file in your index.html.

The script provided above will output a simple website or web application page with a simple parallax scrolling effect. The first and third content section has background images that keep their position while scrolling.

Snapshots

Here are the snapshots of the content section 1 and 3 of the web page.

Section 1

Section 3

DEMO VIDEO

I have also provided the source code zip file of the sample web application that demonstrates the Parallax Effect on this website and it is free to download. You can download it by clicking the Download button located below this tutorial's content.

There you go! I hope this Creating a Parallax Website Design using Pure CSS Tutorial will help you with what you are looking for and will be useful for your current and future web application projects.

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