Typewrapper

Typewrapper is a simple typing animation library, which word-wraps content to avoid words jumping from the right margin to the left as they’re typed.

Currently exports one function, typewrapper(node, speed), which expects a DOM Node & a speed in milliseconds. Future versions might replace speed with an object of keyword options.

Created after playing with github//Monogatari.

Usage

The first argument is a CSS selector for the element you want to be typed out. The second is an optional object of options, although currently only typeSpeed is available, and defaults to 40.

// javascript
import Typewrapper from '../typewrapper.js'
new Typewrapper('#typed', { typeSpeed: 40 }))

Style the element with visibility: hidden to avoid a flash of unstyled content.

/* CSS */
#typed {
  visibility: hidden;
}

Notes

Relationship to typed.js

The API is similar to github//typed.js. Unlike in typed.js, your element is expected to already contain the content you wish to type.

Typewrapper doesn’t currently support any other options than typeSpeed, and doesn’t have methods for pausing, restarting etc. The compatibility with typed.js is to make future expansion easy and predictable.

Roadmap / TODO

Only works for text. Should hide & reveal images too, maybe other types of content?

• One way to do this might be to have a different visibility-toggling mechanism for non-text
• Then switch between insertString() and something like insertElement() based on maybe the class of the wrapping <span>.

Doesn’t do string injections