Constraining the Falling Snow Effect | kirupa.com

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by krilnon | 16 December 2014

The Falling Snow Effect tutorial shows you how to write some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create falling snow. As it stands today, the snow effect causes the snowflakes to go over everything on the page:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.kirupa.com/html5/constraining_the_falling_snow_effect.htm
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The cats out of the bag on this one. It’s hard to be sneaky when the forums create the topic automatically if you accidentally include the embed snippet on the tutorial haha.

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Thanks to Kirupa for his edits and very recognizably stylish diagrams!

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I have copied your snippe (CSS) into my HTML page and nothing happens. Anyway AWESOME! :smile:

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Hey @Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan,

From your other questions here, it seems like you’re very new to web development. Do you have a link to your page where you’re having troubles?

You may have forgotten to include the JavaScript as well as the CSS.

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Hi, thanks I now have another snow effect, though it looks worse than yours. Check it out at Athenian corner.blogspot.com.es

Nevertheless I am still interested in your snippet, although as you have smartly noticed I am new to this kind of code, HTML and javascript

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Thanks for this beauty tutorial but i ask you something more useful and not more difficult i think. To make the snowflake javascript code standalone so anyone can embed in blogger as a gadget. Try it, many people i think would be interested

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Good point! I will look into that shortly :smile:

Basically, the snowflake HTML will be dynamically set by JS itself.

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I think @Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan’s request represents a reality that some people don’t use the tutorials here to learn (right away, or sometimes ever). Instead, some people use them as a modern-day Dynamic Drive (or eager.io, which exists today).

Unless that’s the audience you want to tailor tutorials toward, I don’t know if it makes sense to orient a tutorial toward quick paste-in use versus learning and explanation.

Someone will probably be happy to post a pastable version here on the forums. One could even argue that every effect-style tutorial should have a condensed, single-file paste-in version. I won’t make that argument, though. :cat2:

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Yep - I wasn’t planning on changing the current. Instead, I was planning on just posting a link to either a forum post (like you suggest) or just a simple example page where they can get the code for a dynamic version.

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Sorry, i by no means intnded to undervaluate your work, just to make a suggestion so that your work spreads more widely and quickly. Anyway, thanks for doing so valuable and useful a job that many people is interested in. I hope this feedback is more edyfying…:slight_smile: