Is there a way to get flashing display names?

[themaster1234]

When I say flashing I mean like it is in the link to this gf.

i.gyazo.com/1bb26c56fca5120dcfef088702387129.gif

[Azy]

Something like this might be of use. I knocked this up in Codepen when another member asked a similar question.
codepen.io/Azayles/pen/avBZYN

[Tumbleweed]

Oct 13, 2015 12:23:34 GMT -8 themaster1234 said:

When I say flashing I mean like it is in the link to this gf.

i.gyazo.com/1bb26c56fca5120dcfef088702387129.gif

Just to add to what Azy posted, I think most people just create their animated background and then add it to a group or user via css like so:


a.user-1{background-image:url(http://i657./uu300/EliteList/Animations/anim1.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat;color:white!important;
}

I have a huge image in the above because that is all I had handy that was animated but toss it at the bottom of your css style sheet and you'll see it in action. A few years ago I made a animation that was just a  small color, like 2x2 pixesl move 30px to the right & repeat and it actually had a cool affect behind the text. Of course adding too many animations to ones site can either drive members crazy and/or drive your load time down.

[Azy]

Hiii Tumbles 
 


Oh yes, having several flashy things on the screen at once (think Geocities circa 1990) will make your browser slow to crawl. This is particularly the case if you use an image and animate it by shifting the background position, because that causes full container repaints instead of just updating the changed parts of the image, which is graphics intensive.
If you have several images you want to animate my moving them around, you can use the CSS translate filter. This is a great replacement for animated GIFs, because you can have an image such as this:

And just shift the visible window from left to right in steps to show an animation. Then you can adjust the animation steps on the fly to change the speed or direction, something which you can't do with GIF's.