Stop infinite CSS3 animation and smoothly revert to initial state

Question

Having some trouble building a CSS3 loader using keyframe animations.

The loader consists of 4 boxes that animate going up and down. The issue I\'m having is that wh

Answer 1

Found a pretty simple workaround. Still not pure CSS, it involves a bit of JS, but it works well.

Updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/cazacuvlad/qjmhm4ma/2/

What I did was to move the loader-active class to each span (instead of the wrapper), listen to the animationiteration event on each span and stop the animation then.

$('.loader-wrapper span').on('animationiteration webkitAnimationIteration', function () {
  var $this = $(this);

  $this.removeClass('loader-active');

  $this.off();
});

This basically stops the animation at the very end of an iteration cycle.

Updated LESS

.loader-wrapper {
  span {
    &.loader-active {
      .animation-name(loader);
      .animation-duration(1200ms);
      .animation-timing-function(ease-in-out);
      .animation-play-state(running);
      .animation-iteration-count(infinite);

      &:nth-child(1) {
      }
      &:nth-child(2) {
        .animation-delay(300ms);
      }
      &:nth-child(3) {
        .animation-delay(600ms);
      }
      &:nth-child(4) {
        .animation-delay(900ms);
      }
    }
  }
}