How to Create A Countdown Timer using CSS/JS
Here is our CSS/JS Countdown Timer. You can use this for several things. Advancing a user through your UI is the main idea here.
Basically, a CSS/JS Countdown Timer allows the user to auto-advance to the next episode. I was watching Disney+ the other day (Mandalorian rocks!) and I saw a neat UI for auto-advancing a user to the next episode. It was a button with a countdown.
Therefore in this article, I’ll show you how you can build a CSS/JS Countdown Timer. Let’s get started. You can find the code and config files on Github to follow throughout the tutorial
I developed this Countdown Timer using CSS/JS by using Codepen which is an online community for testing and showcasing user-created HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code snippets. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, called “pens,” and test them. It should get you started by creating an account with them and following through this tutorial would be much easier
We’ll be letting CSS handle the animations since CSS animations are far more performant in browsers than letting JavaScript handle the animation. The steps for creating our CSS/JS Countdown Timer look like:
