Animation & motion

Animations, scroll stories and page transitions.

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Which animation options does TeleportHQ have?

Which animation options does TeleportHQ have?

TeleportHQ animates your site with Motion, in any project and on every plan; use Add motion in the right panel for one element, the Motion element for a group, Animate all pages for the whole site, the Transition section for smooth style changes, Scroll Scenes for scroll stories and Page transitions between pages, plus Lottie files and your own CSS.

How to animate any element (Add motion)

How to animate any element (Add motion)

In TeleportHQ, select an element, click Add motion… in the Motion section of the right panel and pick an animation such as Slide up; the element moves into a Motion element right where it stands, plays when visitors scroll to it, and one undo takes it back out.

How to choose a Motion animation and its speed

How to choose a Motion animation and its speed

In TeleportHQ, select a Motion element, click the Animation field in Motion Settings to pick one of the ready-made animations (or Custom to set your own From and To values), press the play button to watch it, then set Speed to Snappy, Balanced or Smooth, or Custom for an exact number of seconds.

How to create advanced animations with the Motion element

How to create advanced animations with the Motion element

In TeleportHQ, click Motion in the Motion group of the Elements panel to add an animation container, put your content inside it, then set the animation, what starts it (on load, on scroll into view, scroll-linked parallax, on hover or on tap), its speed and a stagger in Motion Settings; it works in websites and web apps alike.

What happened to the Animation section, and how do I switch to Motion?

What happened to the Animation section, and how do I switch to Motion?

In TeleportHQ, the old Animation section (effects such as fadeInUp and Animate on Reveal) is now called Animation (legacy) and only shows on elements that already use it; those animations keep working, new ones come from Motion, and Switch to Motion moves an old animation to the closest Motion animation with the same timing.

How to animate an element when it scrolls into view

How to animate an element when it scrolls into view

In TeleportHQ, select the element, click Add motion… in the Motion section of the right panel and pick an entrance such as Slide up; it plays when the visitor scrolls to the element, because On scroll into view is the default trigger, and Animate once and Visible amount in Motion Settings fine-tune when.

How to animate a whole page in one click

How to animate a whole page in one click

In the TeleportHQ editor, press Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on Mac) and choose Animate current page or Animate all pages; after you review and confirm, headings, images, buttons and card lists get gentle entrance animations as visitors scroll, nothing else on the page changes, and one Undo removes them all.

How to add a transition to an element

How to add a transition to an element

In TeleportHQ, a transition makes a style change smooth instead of instant, for example a button that fades to a new color on hover; select the element, click + in the Transition section of the right panel, then click the new line to set its Property, Easing, Duration and Delay.

How to make a row of logos scroll by itself

How to make a row of logos scroll by itself

In TeleportHQ, select the row of logos, open the AI Assistant and ask it to make the row slide sideways by itself; it builds a seamless loop that plays on the canvas, in Preview and on your site, stands still for visitors who ask for less motion, and can be re-timed or stopped with another request.

What do visitors who turn on reduced motion see?

What do visitors who turn on reduced motion see?

TeleportHQ sites respect the "reduce motion" setting of a visitor's device automatically; Motion animations show the content in place without moving, rows that slide by themselves stand still and can be swiped, page transitions become instant, and each Scroll Scene and Scroll Video shows what you choose in its Reduced motion setting.

How to add a Lottie animation

How to add a Lottie animation

In TeleportHQ, click or drag the Lottie element from Elements → Media onto the page, then paste your animation's JSON link from LottieFiles into the src field of the Attributes section in the right panel, and set autoplay, loop, speed, background and hover.

How to add CSS keyframes or animation libraries with custom code

How to add CSS keyframes or animation libraries with custom code

To use your own CSS animation in TeleportHQ, click the Project settings cog, open Data & code → Custom code, paste a style block with your @keyframes under Head (it saves as you type), then add an animation property (for example, animation: softPulse 2s infinite) to an element in the right panel's Advanced tab; it plays in Preview and on the published site, not on the editor canvas.

What is a scroll story (Scroll Scene)?

What is a scroll story (Scroll Scene)?

A scroll story in TeleportHQ is a section built with the Scroll Scene element that stays on screen while visitors scroll through it, so its chapters take the stage one after another; add one from Elements → Primitives → Motion → Scroll Scene, or a ready-made one from Elements → Sections → Stories.

How to create a scroll story with the Scroll Scene element

How to create a scroll story with the Scroll Scene element

In TeleportHQ, open Elements → Primitives and click Scroll Scene in the Motion group; a scene with three starter chapters is added and selected, and you replace their text, move through the story with the Editing position slider and check the real scrolling in Preview.

How to add a ready-made scroll story

How to add a ready-made scroll story

In TeleportHQ, open Elements → Sections, click the Stories category and click a story such as Product story; a complete Scroll Scene with five chapters is added at the end of the page and selected, ready for you to move into place and fill with your own texts and pictures.

How to add, reorder and time chapters in a Scroll Scene

How to add, reorder and time chapters in a Scroll Scene

In TeleportHQ, select a Scroll Scene and click + in the Chapters row of the right panel (or + Chapter in the Scene Timeline) to add a chapter from 24 templates; drag a chapter's row in the Scene Timeline or the layers tree to reorder it, and click Re-deal evenly to give every chapter an equal share of the story again.

How to set a Scroll Scene's length, background and pinning

How to set a Scroll Scene's length, background and pinning

In TeleportHQ, select a Scroll Scene and use its Scroll Scene section in the right panel to set Scroll length (how many screens of scrolling the story takes), the Background (a colour, the dark story gradient or a video), Smoothing, Pin while scrolling and what visitors who ask for reduced motion see.

How to edit a Scroll Scene on the Scene Timeline

How to edit a Scroll Scene on the Scene Timeline

In TeleportHQ, select a Scroll Scene or anything inside it and the Scene Timeline opens under the canvas, with one row per chapter; play or scrub the story with its playhead, open a chapter to see what moves inside it, drag bars to change when things play, and reorder chapters by dragging their rows.

How to make a Scroll Scene settle on each chapter (Chapter snap)

How to make a Scroll Scene settle on each chapter (Chapter snap)

In TeleportHQ, select a Scroll Scene and set Chapter snap to Gentle in the right panel's Scroll Scene section, so that when a visitor stops scrolling between two chapters the story glides to the nearest chapter; you can also pin the exact moment each chapter settles on from the Scene Timeline.

How to animate an element as visitors scroll through a scene

How to animate an element as visitors scroll through a scene

In TeleportHQ, select any element inside a Scroll Scene and choose a Scroll animation in the right panel's Scroll Scene section, such as Rise in or Parallax, or choose Custom (keyframes) to decide what changes, when and by how much, so the element moves with the visitor's scroll.

How to reveal text word by word as visitors scroll

How to reveal text word by word as visitors scroll

In TeleportHQ, select a heading or paragraph inside a Scroll Scene and choose Word by word under Scroll animation in the right panel's Scroll Scene section, so its words arrive one after another as visitors scroll; choosing No animation joins the text back into one piece.

How to make numbers count up as visitors scroll

How to make numbers count up as visitors scroll

In TeleportHQ, add a Big number or Three numbers chapter to a Scroll Scene to show figures that count up from 0 as visitors scroll, change each figure under Keyframes → Count up in the right panel, or ask the AI Assistant to make numbers already on your page count up.

How to add a video that plays as visitors scroll (Scroll Video)

How to add a video that plays as visitors scroll (Scroll Video)

In TeleportHQ, add a Scroll Video from the Motion group of the Elements panel, then choose or upload a clip (or make one with AI); TeleportHQ optimizes the clip for scrolling, plays it forward as visitors scroll down and backward as they scroll up, and shows a still picture to visitors who ask for reduced motion.

How to make a scroll video with AI

How to make a scroll video with AI

In TeleportHQ, click Make one with AI on a Scroll Video (or ✦ in its Source row), describe the clip, choose 4, 6 or 8 seconds and click Generate video; the clip costs about 2,250 AI tokens per second, usually takes about a minute, can be made longer with Extend clip, and still reaches your project if you reload the editor while it's being made.

How to add page transitions to your site

How to add page transitions to your site

In TeleportHQ, click the Project settings cog at the bottom of the left sidebar, open Page transitions under Appearance and click a card such as Fade or Slide up; the transition then plays every time a visitor moves from one page of your site to another, in Preview and on the published site.

How to design your own page transition

How to design your own page transition

In TeleportHQ, open Project settings → Page transitions, click the Design your own card at the bottom of the list, pick a starting point in Start from, then set Duration (s), Easing, and how the new page arrives and the old page leaves; the card shows the result as you change the values.

How to turn off the page transition for one page or folder

How to turn off the page transition for one page or folder

In TeleportHQ, right-click a page in the Pages list and switch on Skip page transition (or Skip page transitions on a folder); that page then appears instantly instead of playing your site's page transition, while leaving it still plays the transition.

How to make a picture fly to the next page

How to make a picture fly to the next page

In TeleportHQ, when a picture inside a link opens a page that shows the same picture, the picture flies into its place on the next page while the page transition plays; it's on by default, under Project settings → Page transitions → Pictures → Fly to the next page.