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Animations

Two kinds of motion live here. Both start off, and each is switched on its own — turning one on says nothing about the other.

Feature
What it does

A linked image grows a little under the cursor.

Blocks arrive with an entrance effect as the page is scrolled.


Image zoom on hover

An image that links somewhere scales up a little while the cursor rests on it, hinting that it can be clicked. It applies anywhere an image acts as a link — product cards, collection cards, blog cards, mega-menu banners, and so on.

Enable image zoom on hover turns the effect on and off. It applies to the whole storefront — there is no per-block control.

Image zoom on hover — a linked image grows slightly under the cursor

Block animations

A block fades, slides, or grows into place the first time it scrolls into view, and stays put from then on. Each block picks its own effect and timing through the Animation setting it carries — headings, text, images, buttons, and so on.

Enable block animations turns the effect on and off. It applies to the whole storefront, but a block still plays nothing until its own Animation → Type is set.

Animations setting panel

Type

Set on the block itself, under Animation → Type.

Type
What happens

None

No animation; the block appears immediately.

Fade

Fades in from transparent.

Scale

Grows from half size while fading in.

Slide from left

Slides in from the left while fading in.

Slide from right

Slides in from the right while fading in.

Slide from bottom

Rises from below while fading in.

Rotate words

(Heading only) Cycles through the heading's words in place, one at a time.

Delay

Milliseconds to wait before the block starts animating. Set increasing delays on successive blocks to stagger their entrances.

Block animation in action — blocks fade and slide up as the page is scrolled

Blocks that can animate

These blocks expose an Animation setting:

The built-in headings that sections and blocks bring with them carry the same Animation group — the heading of Recommended products, Recently viewed and its page version, Related posts, the Collection list page, the Video reviews block, and the recommendation row in the Cart drawer.


Accessibility is built in. Helix respects the operating system's "Reduce Motion" preference. Customers who enable it will not see animations, regardless of what is configured here.


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