angular 2 ngIf and CSS transition/animation

Question

I want a div to slide in from the right in angular 2 using css.

  <div class="note" [ngClass]="{'transition':show}" *ngIf="show">
    <p> Notes</p>
  </div>
  <button class="btn btn-default" (click)="toggle(show)">Toggle</button>

I works fine if i only use [ngClass] to toggle class and utilise opacity. But li don't want that element to be rendered from the beginning so I "hide" it with ngIf first, but then the transition wont't work.

.transition{
  -webkit-transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in-out,margin-left 500ms ease-in-out;
  -moz-transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in-out,margin-left 500ms ease-in-out;
  -ms-transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in-out,margin-left 500ms ease-in-out ;
  -o-transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in-out,margin-left 500ms ease-in-out;
  transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in-out,margin-left 500ms ease-in-out;
  margin-left: 1500px;
  width: 200px;
  opacity: 0;
}

.transition{
  opacity: 100;
  margin-left: 0;
}

Answer 1

update 4.1.0

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See also https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#400-rc1-2017-02-24

update 2.1.0

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For more details see Animations at angular.io

import { trigger, style, animate, transition } from '@angular/animations';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  animations: [
    trigger(
      'enterAnimation', [
        transition(':enter', [
          style({transform: 'translateX(100%)', opacity: 0}),
          animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(0)', opacity: 1}))
        ]),
        transition(':leave', [
          style({transform: 'translateX(0)', opacity: 1}),
          animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(100%)', opacity: 0}))
        ])
      ]
    )
  ],
  template: `
    <button (click)="show = !show">toggle show ({{show}})</button>

    <div *ngIf="show" [@enterAnimation]>xxx</div>
  `
})
export class App {
  show:boolean = false;
}

original

*ngIf removes the element from the DOM when the expression becomes false. You can't have a transition on a non-existing element.

Use instead hidden:

<div class="note" [ngClass]="{'transition':show}" [hidden]="!show">