transition and target in css

Question

I'm working on creating a page with some CSS-animations (due to some of my customers dont want JavaScript heavy site). So I have one element I want to animate, but in 3 different ways based on which button is clicked:

Example:

<a href="#element">One animation</a>
<a href="#element">Second animation</a>
<a href="#element">Third animation</a>

<div id="element"></div>

The way I select the element is with :target. But how can I animate the same element in three different ways using :target?

This is the CSS I have by now for testing purposes:

#element{
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
border-radius: 0px;
background-color: red;
position: absolute;
left: 440px;
top: 300px;
-webkit-transition-property: height, width, background-color,;
-webkit-transition-duration: 5s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function:ease-out;
}

#element:target{
height: 300px;
width: 500px;
border-radius: 0px;
background-color: blue;
position: absolute;
left: 200px;
top: 200px;
}

So I basically want to have 3 different :target styles on the same element. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can do it by using css adjacent(+) selector like this:

HTML:

<a id='first' href="#first">One animation</a>
<a id='second' href="#second">Second animation</a>
<a id='third' href="#third">Third animation</a>

<div id="element" class="force-repaint"></div>

CSS:

#element{
    height: 300px;
    width: 300px;
    border-radius: 0px;
    background-color: red;
    position: absolute;
    left: 300px;
    top: 50px;
    -webkit-transition-property: height, width, background-color,;
    -webkit-transition-duration: .2s;
    -webkit-transition-timing-function:ease-out;
}

#first:target + #second + #third + #element { 
    background: yellow;
}

#second:target + #third + #element{
    background: green;
}

#third:target + #element{
    background: purple;
}

.force-repaint { -webkit-animation: bugfix infinite 1s; }
@-webkit-keyframes bugfix { from { fill: 0; } to { fill: 0; } }

Working DEMO