# Constraining the Falling Snow Effect | kirupa.com **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [December 21, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316 "2014-12-21T23:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/1 "2014-12-21T23:43:23Z")
by [krilnon](http://www.krilnon.com) | 16 December 2014 The [Falling Snow Effect tutorial](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/the_falling_snow_effect.htm) 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](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/constraining_the_falling_snow_effect.htm) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/2 "2014-12-21T23:48:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/3 "2014-12-22T00:09:15Z")
Thanks to Kirupa for his edits and very recognizably stylish diagrams! ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/4 "2015-02-09T19:41:56Z")
I have copied your snippe (CSS) into my HTML page and nothing happens. Anyway AWESOME! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/5 "2015-02-09T22:36:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/6 "2015-02-10T00:08:15Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/7 "2015-02-13T11:47:20Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/8 "2015-02-13T18:02:42Z")
Good point! I will look into that shortly 😄 Basically, the snowflake HTML will be dynamically set by JS itself. ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/9 "2015-02-14T00:47:52Z")
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](http://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. 🐈 ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/10 "2015-02-14T02:12:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Gonzalo\_Gomez\_Fernan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gonzalo_Gomez_Fernan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/constraining-the-falling-snow-effect-kirupa-com/443316/11 "2015-02-14T07:52:56Z")
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…🙂