Highlight Cycling — Text cycling with animated color bar

How the cycle works

Hold → Cover → Reveal → repeat. The bar wipes in to hide the current word, the text swaps underneath, then the bar pulls away. One smooth motion, no visible cut.

• Wipe from any direction — left, right, up, or down

• Per-word colors that lock in at the start of each cover phase and hold through the full reveal

• Container width animates between words so the layout adjusts around different lengths

• Optional appear effect: a one-time scroll-triggered reveal before the loop begins

Timing splits into two controls — how long each word holds, and how long the transitions take. The easing is a power3 curve, so the bar accelerates in and decelerates out of each pass.

Controls: word list, marker colors (per-word or single), wipe direction, cycle hold duration, transition duration, text style, appear effect toggle.