24 CSS Scroll-Driven Animations

This 3D Rotating iOS Time Picker recreates the tactile feel of native mobile controls on the web. It features three independently rotating wheels (Hours, Minutes, Meridiem) that snap into place with satisfying physics. The component leverages the cutting-edge Scroll-driven Animations API for buttery-smooth performance on supported browsers, while seamlessly falling back to GSAP for others. The 3D perspective creates a “drum” effect where numbers fade and rotate away as they leave the center view.

This Scroll-Driven Masonry Reveal creates a playful, tactile experience where content cards appear to be “dealt” onto the screen as the user scrolls. By leveraging the native CSS Scroll-driven Animations API, it achieves smooth, main-thread-free entrance effects without a single line of JavaScript. The layout adapts intelligently from 2 to 8 columns, making it a robust solution for image galleries or blog archives.

This Scroll-Linked View Transition Header demonstrates a cinematic UI pattern common in music apps like Spotify. It uses the View Transition API to morph a large album hero section into a compact, sticky navigation bar, but with a twist: the animation progress is scrubbed directly by the user’s scroll position rather than a fixed timer.

This Scroll-Driven Image Swapper demonstrates the bleeding edge of web animation. It uses the native CSS Scroll-driven Animations API to create a complex parallax-like effect where two columns of different heights scroll in sync. As you scroll, the images in the shorter column slide and crossfade to match the context of the taller column. Crucially, the code implements a Progressive Enhancement strategy: it checks for native browser support and falls back to GSAP ScrollTrigger for browsers that haven’t implemented the spec yet.

An elegant, kinetic, presentation-like website that uses scrolling to drive deep, layered animation and audio feedback.

A fluid, tactile selection interface where elements “live” and react to scroll, creating a “fisheye” or lens effect.

A horizontal scroll interface featuring a “lens” effect powered by CSS Scroll-Driven Animations (animation-timeline: view(inline)).

This demo uses a single scroll event listener to calculate the individual progress of each list item as it enters the viewport. The progress value is then passed to a CSS Custom Property, which drives a staggered transform: scale() and opacity animation for a fluid, app-like reveal effect.

A complex technical example demonstrating how to ensure animation functionality even without CSS animation-timeline: scroll() support. The code first checks for support and, if absent, uses GSAP ScrollTrigger as a polyfill for scroll-driven animation.

Using experimental CSS features to build an advanced UI component, showcasing CSS Anchoring to attach the tooltip to the slider and Scroll-Driven Animations to drive the slider’s value and color change.

A demonstration of the new CSS Scroll-Driven Animations (SDA) API, where the scroll position of the entire page directly drives a complex, scaling, and rotating grid of images, achieving a high-performance, engaging visual effect purely with CSS.

A dynamic React list component with search and filtering features, demonstrating optimized user experience by automatically sorting checked items to the top of the list, thereby enhancing navigation.

A truly modern image flow powered by CSS Scroll-driven Animations and view-timeline. This demo uses pure CSS to create a 3D perspective effect where images pop out and rotate as they enter the viewport, with no JavaScript required.

This scroll-driven animation effect is built entirely with CSS Scroll-Driven Animations, using animation-timeline: scroll(). It smoothly translates and transforms elements based on scroll position, creating a dynamic and high-performance parallax effect without JavaScript.

A parallax effect implemented entirely in pure CSS using animation-timeline: view(). This modern solution ensures high performance as the animation is tied directly to the scroll position, eliminating the need for JavaScript.

Native CSS Scroll-Driven Animation provides GPU-optimized smooth reveal of elements, ensuring flawless responsiveness without additional JavaScript.

A mesmerizing scroll-driven image grid powered by the cutting-edge animation-timeline: view() CSS property and the <css-doodle> web component.

A modern and clean way to indicate scrollability: the “fade-to-mist” effect is implemented using mask-image and linear-gradient, while key parameters of the fade phase are precisely tuned using @property.

Check out this cutting-edge “sticky island” effect that dynamically squishes and transforms on scroll using CSS Scroll-Timeline. The core technical feature is creating the Gooey effect by combining filter: blur() and contrast() with absolute control linked to the scroll position.

A cutting-edge image comparison slider powered by CSS scroll-driven animations, using view-timeline to link range input scrolling directly to the image masking logic.

A modern implementation of interactive page flipping where the sprite animation (background-position) is fully synchronized with page scrolling using the new CSS scroll-timeline feature, eliminating JavaScript for timing control.

A sophisticated scroll-linked text filling effect powered by modern CSS Scroll-Driven Animations and custom @property logic. This snippet showcases fluid typography, responsive layouts, and the View Transition API for seamless theme switching, providing a high-performance blueprint for advanced frontend interfaces.

An advanced gallery with a carousel based on the native <dialog> element and Scroll-Driven Animations, where the View Transitions API synchronizes the modal opening with the carousel scroll to the selected image, delivering a smooth and functional UX.