CSS3 Animating position

Question

Consider CSS3 animation with ship moving above blue div. For some reason the ship isn't moving. The HTML is as follows:

<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="sea">
    <img src="ship.png" alt="ship" width="128" height="128"/>
  </div>
</div>

In order to make CSS3 animation I use the following:

#wrapper { position:relative;top:50px;width:700px;height:320px;
          margin:0 auto;background:white;border-radius:10px;}
#sea { position:relative;background:#2875DE;width:700px;height:170px;
       border-radius:10px;top:190px; }
#sea img { 
  position:relative;left:480px;top:-20px;
  animation:myship 10s;
  -moz-animation:myship 10s; /* Firefox */
  -webkit-animation:myship 10s; /* Safari and Chrome */
  @keyframes myship {
    from {left: 480px;} 
    to{left:20px;} 
   }
   @-moz-keyframes myship {
     from {left: 480px;} 
     to {left:20px;} 
   }
   @-webkit-keyframes myship {
     from {left: 480px;} 
     to{left:20px;} 
   }
}

The ship image isn't moving. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

To animate with left, top, bottom or right, you either have to have a absolutely positioned or floated element. SO, Change the position to absolute.

Also, there was as unclosed braces } before you started to declare the keyframes.

#sea img { 
    position:absolute;
    /* ... */
}

Braces Error:

    #sea img{
         position:absolute; /* absolute */
         left:480px;top:-20px;
         animation:myship 10s;
        -moz-animation:myship 10s; /* Firefox */
        -webkit-animation:myship 10s; /* Safari and Chrome */
    } 
 /* ^ You have to close the braces here, before declaring the keyframes.

Here is a working demo

Answer 2

you have to declare your keyframe outside the css selector, as well as animate an absolutely positioned element.

http://jsfiddle.net/aNvSf/

your modified css looks like this:

#wrapper{
    position:relative;
    top:50px;
    width:700px;
    height:320px;
    margin:0 auto;
    background:white;
    border-radius:10px;
}
#sea{
    position:relative;
    background:#2875DE;
    width:700px;
    height:170px;
    border-radius:10px;
    top:190px;
}
#sea img{
    position:absolute;
    left:480px;
    top:-20px;
    animation:myship 10s;
    -moz-animation:myship 10s; /* Firefox */
    -webkit-animation:myship 10s; /* Safari and Chrome */               
}

@keyframes myship{
    from {left: 480px;} 
    to{left:20px;} 
}
@-moz-keyframes myship{
    from {left: 480px;} 
    to{left:20px;} 
}
@-webkit-keyframes myship{
    from {left: 480px;} 
    to{left:20px;} 
}​