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title: "Word Rotator with @counter-style – Frontend Masters Blog"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/word-rotator-with-counter-style-frontend-masters-blog-stpmwaw2n
source_url: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/word-rotator-with-counter-style
type: article
source: "Frontend Masters"
published: 2026-06-05T13:01:16.857Z
updated: 2026-06-05T13:01:41.352Z
tags: ["css"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 3
comments: 1
language: en
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# Word Rotator with @counter-style – Frontend Masters Blog

**[Frontend Masters](https://daily.dev/sources/frontendmasters)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A tutorial demonstrating how to build a word rotator using CSS @counter-style with the cyclic system. It covers storing words in the symbols descriptor, using a registered custom property (@property) as an incrementable index, animating transitions between words with keyframes, and extending the technique to pseudo-random text effects and additive symbol systems using playing card and mahjong tile glyphs.

## Full article

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**@codagonist** · 0 upvotes

> Ha, didn't know this existed. Nice little snippet

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