How to run CSS text animation in a sequence. (one line of text after another)

Question

I have this fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/8uwu59sL/ Currently it's typing out every line at the same time, but I'd like to make it type them out one line after another with a second long delay in between lines.

This is the HTML:

<p>First Line...</p>
<p>Second Line...</p>
<p>Third Line...</p>
<p>Fourth Line...</p>
<p>Fifth Line...</p>
<p>Sixth Line...</p>
<br>
<p>Final/Blinking Line<span>|</span></p> 

And this is the CSS:

body{
  background: #000;
  padding-top: 10px;
} 

p{
  color: lime; 
  font-family: "Courier";
  font-size: 20px;
  margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 30em;
  animation: type 4s steps(60, end); 
}

p:nth-child(2){
  animation: type2 8s steps(60, end);
}

p a{
  color: lime;
  text-decoration: none;
}

span{
  animation: blink 1s infinite;
}

@keyframes type{ 
  from { width: 0; } 
} 

@keyframes type2{
  0%{width: 0;}
  50%{width: 0;}
  100%{ width: 100; } 
} 

@keyframes blink{
  to{opacity: .0;}
}

::selection{
  background: black;
}

I was wondering, how do I do this? Also, is it possible to have the last line ("Final/Blinking Line") blinking slowly, and have the "|" blinking too, but at a different rate? Thanks in advance for any help with this!

Answer 1

PURE CSS APPROACH:

To achieve your first requirement, you need to use the css selector :nth-child(). How to use it: element:nth-child(n) where n represents the index of the child element in its parent.

For the other one you would need to separate your text and the "|" each in a separate <span> to target them individually with a different animation duration (speed).

EDIT:

If you can use JQuery and you're planning on adding more lines over time, I would recommend using DaniP's answer, it's way more scalable, without worrying about adding a new css selector for every line. If you want to target a specific line to change something like animation-duration you could just target them individually adding an id and using css.

body {
  background: #000;
  padding-top: 10px;
}
p {
  color: lime;
  font-family: "Courier";
  font-size: 20px;
  margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  animation: type 4s steps(60, end) forwards;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
}
p:nth-child(2) {
  animation-delay: 1s;
}
p:nth-child(3) {
  animation-delay: 2s;
}
p:nth-child(4) {
  animation-delay: 3s;
}
p:nth-child(5) {
  animation-delay: 4s;
}
p:nth-child(6) {
  animation-delay: 5s;
  margin-bottom: 25px;
}
p:nth-child(7) {
  animation-delay: 6s;
}
p:nth-child(7) span:first-child {
  animation-duration: 0.8s;
}
span {
  animation: blink 1.8s infinite 8s;
}
p a {
  color: lime;
  text-decoration: none;
}
@keyframes type {
  0% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
  100% {
    width: 30em;
    opacity: 1;
  }
}
@keyframes blink {
  from {
    opacity: 0;
  }
  to {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}
::selection {
  background: black;
}

<p>First Line...</p>
<p>Second Line...</p>
<p>Third Line...</p>
<p>Fourth Line...</p>
<p>Fifth Line...</p>
<p>Sixth Line...</p>
<p><span>Final/Blinking Line</span>  <span>|</span>
</p>

Answer 2

You need to manage the animation-delay value, one way is setting that for each one on CSS with :nth-child selector but if you can use Jquery, try this:

$('p').each(function(i) {
  $(this).css({
    "animation-delay": i + "s"
  })
});

body {
  background: #000;
  padding-top: 10px;
}
p {
  width: 0;
  color: lime;
  font-family: "Courier";
  font-size: 20px;
  margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  animation: type 4s steps(60, end) forwards;
}
p a {
  color: lime;
  text-decoration: none;
}
span {
  animation: blink 1s infinite;
}
@keyframes type {
  0% {
    width: 0;
  }
  100% {
    width: 100%;
  }
}
@keyframes blink {
  to {
    opacity: .0;
  }
}
::selection {
  background: black;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p>First Line...</p>
<p>Second Line...</p>
<p>Third Line...</p>
<p>Fourth Line...</p>
<p>Fifth Line...</p>
<p>Sixth Line...</p>
<br>
<p>Final/Blinking Line<span>|</span>
</p>