JavaScript Typing Animation Library – Typed.js

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JavaScript Typing Animation Library – Typed.js

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License: MIT

Typed.js is a JavaScript library that provides the experience of animated typing letters. It has various options to modify it’s features(shuffle, loop, loopCount, cursorChar and many more) accordingly.

Features:

  • Supports npm, yarn and bower.
  • You can customize typing speed as you need.
  • You can controll the loopCount also.
  • It can be played within loop.
  • Supports backSpeed and smartBackspace.

Install with npm

npm install typed.js

Install with yarn

yarn add typed.js

Install with bower

bower install typed.js

How to use it:

1. Load the required JavaScript resource typed.js in the HTML page.

<script src="path/typed.js"></script>

OR from CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/typed.js@2.0.9"></script>

2. Add basic SEO friendly html structure to the page.

<div id="typed-strings">
  <p>Typed.js is a <strong>JavaScript</strong> library.</p>
  <p>It <em>types</em> out sentences.</p>
</div>
<span id="typed"></span>

3. Initialized the stringsElement to respective ID #typed

<script>
  var typed = new Typed('#typed', {
    stringsElement: '#typed-strings'
  });
</script>

Use it with “strings”

1. Just add a span to the page with a class named element

<span class="element"></span>

2. Initialized strings to respective class named .element

var options = {
  strings: ["<i>First</i> sentence.", "&amp; a second sentence."],
  typeSpeed: 40,
  loop: true,
}

var typed = new Typed(".element", options);

Plugin’s default configuration options:

{
  strings:[],
  stringsElement: null,
  typeSpeed: 0,
  startDelay: 0,
  backSpeed: 0,
  smartBackspace: true,
  shuffle: false,
  backDelay: 700,
  fadeOut: false,
  fadeOutClass: 'typed-fade-out',
  fadeOutDelay: 500,
  loop: false,
  loopCount: Infinity,
  showCursor: true,
  cursorChar: '|',
  autoInsertCss: true,
  attr: null,
  bindInputFocusEvents: false,
  contentType: 'html'
}

Find detail configuration options from the main document.

Plugin’s Options:

Name Default Type Description
strings null array strings – strings to be typed
stringsElement null string stringsElement – ID of element containing string children
typeSpeed 0 number typeSpeed – type speed in milliseconds
startDelay 0 number startDelay – time before typing starts in milliseconds
backSpeed 0 number backSpeed – backspacing speed in milliseconds
smartBackspace true boolean smartBackspace – only backspace what doesn’t match the previous string
shuffle false boolean shuffle – shuffle the strings
backDelay 700 number backDelay – time before backspacing in milliseconds
fadeOut false boolean fadeOut – Fade out instead of backspace
fadeOutClass 'typed-fade-out' string fadeOutClass – css class for fade animation
fadeOutDelay 500 boolean fadeOutDelay – Fade out delay in milliseconds
loop false boolean loop – loop strings
loopCount Infinity number loopCount – amount of loops
showCursor true boolean showCursor – show cursor
cursorChar '|' string cursorChar – character for cursor
autoInsertCss true boolean autoInsertCss – insert CSS for cursor and fadeOut into HTML <head></head>
attr null string attr – attribute for typing
bindInputFocusEvents false boolean bindInputFocusEvents – bind to focus and blur if el is text input
contentType html string contentType – ‘html’ or ‘null’ for plaintext

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