Cross-Document View Transitions: A Frontend Guide
Summary
Add native hardware-accelerated transitions between full pages with pure CSS.
Why Cross-Document View Transitions matter in 2026
The View Transitions API graduated from a Chrome-only experiment to a stable, cross-browser feature this year, and the most exciting part of the upgrade is cross-document support. You can now animate the transition between two completely different HTML pages with a few lines of CSS, no SPA shell, no framework router hacks, and no JavaScript animation library. The browser snapshots both pages, runs hardware-accelerated tweens between them, and lets users see motion that used to be the exclusive territory of native iOS and Android.
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