Internal "default" sequence?

[NubieHere]

Hi,

Why is this (see codepen) first animating the element to the top and the left, and THEN animating the width and height!?

 

I would EXPECT it to animate ALL properties at the same time ... as I guess any user would. So, WHY is it behaving as it does, and what would be the argument that it indeed should behave like this? It seems counter intuitive ... at best.

See the Pen PowXZrB by blaasvaer (@blaasvaer) on CodePen

[Carl]

cool demo.

 

the issue is that you have a css transition on .element which is fighting with gsap.

 

.element {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 0;
  transition: width 2s, height 2s;  // no good
  text-align: center;
 // opacity: .2;
}

remove the transition and it works as expected

[NubieHere]

Thanks for clearing that out Carl.

 

Lesson learned: whenever GSAP 'misbehave', check your own CSS ; )