Properties of scroll-timeline: creating animations on scroll without JavaScript

📰 Dev.to · Nick Benksim

Learn to create animations on scroll without JavaScript using scroll-timeline properties

intermediate Published 16 May 2026

Action Steps

Explore the scroll-timeline property in CSS
Apply the scroll-timeline property to an element to create a scroll-based animation
Configure the animation using the @scroll-timeline rule
Test the animation by scrolling through the webpage
Compare the result with traditional JavaScript-based scroll animations

Who Needs to Know This

Frontend developers and designers can benefit from this technique to enhance user experience without relying on JavaScript

Key Insight

💡 Scroll-timeline allows for JavaScript-free scroll animations using CSS