How to create a Slot Machine animation with CSS and JavaScript

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I have been playing with CSS Animations, and I came up with a simple Slot Machine animation.

Below I will share a few details about the implementation.

DOM structure

Firstly, we need to create the HTML elements for our Slot Machine. We will display the results in three different boxes:

Styling the document

Next step, we will create the base CSS:

Handling the animation with JavaScript

In our JS file we will create three functions to handle the animation:

• init(): the main method that initialises the animation for each box element and handles the transition events.