Glitter.js: It's Fabolous

Glitter.js is a library for creating eye catching effects on normally boring text

Integrating glitter in your code is as easy as including the script itself:

<script type="text/javascript" src="glitter.js"></script>

Then you can start the awesome with:

glitter('#text-id', {
    loopPeriod: 5000,        //ms between each glitter
    maxIteration: undefined, //maximum number of glitters
    accentTime: 100,         //time the accent class is shown
    highlightTime: 20,        //time the highlight class is shown 
    downlightTime: 20,        //time the downlight class is shown
    rtl: false,              //direction of the glitter
    travelPeriod: 40,        //ms between each subsequent letter glitter
    flipping: false          //makes half loop between default and accent
});

and that's it!

The library rolls these 4 css classes along the text characters:

    glitter-default   //class the text is normally at
    glitter-highlight //class the text gets before the accent
    glitter-accent    //class that represent the highlighted text
    glitter-downlight //class the text gets after the accent

Normally the classes are applied in order according to the timed defined in the configuration; the only difference of note is when using 'flipping: true', which maintains the accent for a whole half loop before showing the default again on the next loop.

See more samples here

Glitter.js was was built as part of the fashiontech application LOOKCAST

To use transforms and transitions on a span use this trick as demonstrated on the samples page:

display:inline-block;
min-width:3px;

Beware of browser timers! Background tabs fire them at a reduced rate. Use instead the wonderful HackTimer library found here: https://github.com/turuslan/HackTimer