CSS Animations tips and tricks

<div class="box"></div>

<div class="runButton">Click me to run the animation</div>

.runButton {
  cursor: pointer;
  width: 300px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  font-size: 16px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 12px;
  padding-top: 2px;
  padding-bottom: 4px;
  color: white;
  background-color: darkgreen;
  font:
    14px "Open Sans",
    "Arial",
    sans-serif;
}

@keyframes colorchange {
  0% {
    background: yellow;
  }
  100% {
    background: blue;
  }
}

.box {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

.changing {
  animation: colorchange 2s;
}

function play() {
  document.querySelector(".box").className = "box";
  window.requestAnimationFrame(function (time) {
    window.requestAnimationFrame(function (time) {
      document.querySelector(".box").className = "box changing";
    });
  });
}

document.querySelector(".runButton").addEventListener("click", play, false);

.slidein {
  animation-duration: 5s;
  animation-name: slidein;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.stopped {
  animation-name: none;
}

@keyframes slidein {
  0% {
    margin-left: 0%;
  }
  50% {
    margin-left: 50%;
  }
  100% {
    margin-left: 0%;
  }
}

<h1 id="watchme">Click me to stop</h1>

let watchme = document.getElementById("watchme");

watchme.className = "slidein";
const listener = (e) => {
  watchme.className = "slidein stopped";
};
watchme.addEventListener("click", () =>
  watchme.addEventListener("animationiteration", listener, false),
);