Building CSS-native parallax effects with scroll-driven animation timelines
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Summary
This article explains how to create parallax effects using CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines, a modern CSS-native approach that eliminates the need for JavaScript scroll event listeners. It highlights the performance benefits of running animations off the main thread and emphasizes the simplicity of the CSS-only implementation compared to traditional JavaScript-based parallax methods.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe usual recipe was a scroll event listener in JavaScript, recalculating positions on every frame and nudging an element up and down.
Scroll-driven animations handle all of that with CSS.
Handling parallax animations with CSS has a few advantages: performance should be better as it runs it off the main thread, but my favorite part is the simplicity
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