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CSS infinite horizontal scroll with keyframe?

As a student, I'm actually making my own portfolio.
For the header, I tried to create a sky effect, with an image scrolling horizontally. I used CSS and keyframes, the problem I have is that when the image come to the end, it "resets" and doesn't continue to scroll smoothly.
Is there any way to make it continue "indefinitely" ? (I changed the duration to 5s just to not make you wait the 40s :p)

@keyframes animatedBackground {
  from { background-position: 0 0; }
  to { background-position: 100% 0; }
}
#header-top {
  height: 190px;
  background-image: url('http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/46/1479595480-clouds.png');
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  animation: animatedBackground 5s linear infinite;
  line-height: 400px;

}

<div id="header-top">
</div>
Solution

  • I just cropped your image so the end lines up with the start. Then, I modified the animatedBackground keyframes to end at the opposite end of the image.

    Explanation Image

    Cropped image: Cropped Clouds

    How it works 

    @keyframes animatedBackground {
  from {
    left: 0px;
  }
  90% {
    left: -562px;
  }
  100%{left: 0px;}
}
#header-top {
  height: 190px;
  width: 562px;
  overflow-x: auto;
  overflow-y: hidden;
}
* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  font-family:sans-serif;
}
.inner-cont {
  width: 1126px;
  position: relative;
  animation: animatedBackground 4s linear infinite;
}
img{
  border-right:1px solid black;
  box-sizing:border-box;
}
    <div id="header-top">
  <div class='inner-cont'>
    <img src="https://archive.org/download/clouds-tiled/clouds-tiled.png" /><img src="https://archive.org/download/clouds-tiled/clouds-tiled.png" />
  </div>
</div>
<h3>^ How it actually works(almost) ^</h3>
<h4>The spinback doesn't actually get animated, but it happens <br/>(The line separates the looped images from each other)</h4>

    Final result 

    @keyframes animatedBackground {
  from { background-position: 0px 0; }
  to { background-position: -562px 0; }
}
#header-top {
  height: 190px;
  width:100%;
  background-image: url('https://archive.org/download/clouds-tiled/clouds-tiled.png');
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  animation: animatedBackground 2s linear infinite;
  line-height: 400px;

}
    <div id="header-top">
    </div>