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Jun 16 2020

The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate

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The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate
When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? Will recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’t typically associated with animation, but turn out to be animatable.
This articles explores some of the unexpected things that CSS can animate and some nifty things you can do by animating them.
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