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View Transitions: transition types

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
Chromium catches up
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 125)
Intent stage
None

Summary

This feature allows View transition API use to be customized for different types of transitions. Specifically, this adds an ability to add "types" to `startViewTransition` call which will identify the types of the transition. As well, it will match a pseudo-class, called `:active-view-transitions(...)` with a parameter matching the type for the duration of the view transition. Combined these two features provide a way for the author to declare several view transitions once and only trigger one at a time. See example usage in the spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-view-transitions-2/#the-active-view-transition-pseudo

Standards & signals

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