Animation

A row of logos that animate forever perfectly and don’t have any duplicated HTML or JavaScript at all is quite a trick. Thanks modern CSS!

A look at what happens when you add a whole list of transforms to an element, and how that interacts with `animation-composition`.

You’ve got A LOT of control over the design of select menus now, and it can be done as a progressive enhancement.

I’ve seen other websites for helping you generate cubic-bezier() values in CSS for animations and transitions, but Easing Wizard is the best. Importantly, it helps you with the newer linear() style timings as well, which are more powerful. All the different types, the presets, the customization options, the different styles of previews, the clean design… […]

There are no obvious CSS properties or values for making a @keyframe animation wait between iterations, or have a pause before starting. But Nils Riedmann cooked up a clever way to do it using linear() animation timing. I think this is cleaner than faking it with multiple benign keyframe steps. Remember linear is not the […]

A “fan out” animation involves sequentially revealing items from a stack with a bouncy effect. By using CSS grid, we save quite a bit of fiddly positioning work.

I’m on Chrome 129 and this animate to auto stuff is working for me with no special flags, so color me pleased. Would love to see this go into Interop 2025, as submissions are open. I’m using inline-size and max-content there, but it could be height and auto or block-size and min-content or whatever. There […]

Now that we’re starting to see better support for @starting-style and the allow-discrete keyword, we’ve got a pretty straightforward way for defining *different* entry and exit states.

Let’s look at a cool animated nav effect (from a recent post by Emil Kowalski) that uses CSS `clip-path` to move the highlighted nav item around. It’s an interesting look at this CSS feature and adds a lot of polish to a simple idea.