1 CSS Storytelling Examples
Go beyond simple animations and craft guided narratives with CSS storytelling. The cornerstone of this modern approach is the animation-timeline property, a powerful feature that decouples a CSS animation from time and instead links its progress directly to the user’s scroll position. This means a @keyframes animation can be precisely controlled by scrolling, allowing you to fade in text, move images, and reveal data in a perfectly choreographed sequence. Combined with position: sticky to create distinct “scenes,” these examples demonstrate a highly performant way to build immersive, scrollytelling experiences that were previously only possible with complex JavaScript libraries.
Examples
Scroll Flip-Book
A demonstration of one of the oldest and most reliable tricks for a parallax effect: the background-attachment: fixed property makes the section backgrounds stay in place relative to the viewport while the sections themselves scroll, creating an illusion of motion.
See the Pen Scroll Flip-Book.