--- title: A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations | daily.dev description: Chrome 146 is the first browser to ship CSS scroll-triggered animations, a new feature distinct from scroll-driven animations. While scroll-driven animations... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/1bshvz1zf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations | daily.dev og:description: Chrome 146 is the first browser to ship CSS scroll-triggered animations, a new feature distinct from scroll-driven animations. While scroll-driven animations... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/1bshvz1zf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1BShvZ1Zf.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations **[CSS](https://daily.dev/sources/iheartcss)** · [@geoffgraham](https://daily.dev/geoffgraham) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Chrome 146 is the first browser to ship CSS scroll-triggered animations, a new feature distinct from scroll-driven animations. While scroll-driven animations tie animation progress to scroll position, scroll-triggered animations play for a fixed duration once a scroll threshold is crossed — similar to the Intersection Observer API but in pure CSS. The post walks through the core syntax using `timeline-trigger` and `animation-trigger` properties, explains `` keywords like `play-forwards`, `play-backwards`, and `play-once`, covers `animation-fill-mode` interactions, and demonstrates staggering multiple elements using `sibling-count()` and `sibling-index()`. Timeline ranges (activation range vs. active range) are also explained, along with the `view()` function for defining the scroll viewport. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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