CSS View Transitions Module

/* Each element must have a unique view-transition-name */
#card1 {
  view-transition-name: card-1;
}

#card2 {
  view-transition-name: card-2;
}

#card3 {
  view-transition-name: card-3;
}

/* But they can all share the same view-transition-class */
.card {
  view-transition-class: card;
}

/* This single rule applies to all three cards' transitions */
::view-transition-group(.card) {
  animation-duration: 0.5s;
  animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
}

<div class="card" id="card1">Card 1</div>
<div class="card" id="card2">Card 2</div>
<div class="card" id="card3">Card 3</div>

/* General styles and resets */
* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  font-size: 0.9rem;
}

html {
  font-family: "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
  height: 100%;
}

body {
  margin: 0;
  height: inherit;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: space-around;
}
li h2 {
  margin: 0;
}

ul {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  list-style-type: none;
}

li {
  overflow: hidden;
  container-type: inline-size;
}

li p {
  display: none;
}

li.active-item p {
  display: block;
}

li:nth-child(1) {
  background-color: #cbc0d3;
  border: 20px solid #cbc0d3;
}

li:nth-child(2) {
  background-color: #efd3d7;
  border: 20px solid #efd3d7;
}

li:nth-child(3) {
  background-color: #feeafa;
  border: 20px solid #feeafa;
}

li:nth-child(4) {
  background-color: #dee2ff;
  border: 20px solid #dee2ff;
}

/* Links */

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: rgb(0 0 255 / 0.8);
}

a:hover,
a:focus {
  color: rgb(100 100 255);
}

/* Form and checkbox styles */
form {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  z-index: 2;
  background-color: white;
  padding: 10px;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

main {
  container-type: inline-size;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  gap: 2cqw;
  position: relative;
}

ul {
  width: 35cqw;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 1cqw;
}

article {
  flex: 1;
}

li {
  flex: 1;
}

.active-item {
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1;
  translate: 37cqw;
  width: calc(100% - 37cqw);
  height: 100%;
}

.match-element-applied li {
  view-transition-name: match-element;
}

::view-transition-group(*) {
  animation-duration: 0.5s;
}

html::view-transition-old(*),
html::view-transition-new(*) {
  height: 100%;
}

<main class="match-element-applied">
  <ul>
    <li>
      <h2><a href="#">HTML</a></h2>
      <h3>HyperText Markup Language</h3>
      <p>
        HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the most basic building block of the
        web. It defines the meaning and structure of web content. HTML provides
        the fundamental building blocks for structuring web documents and apps.
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2><a href="#">CSS</a></h2>
      <h3>Cascading Style Sheets</h3>
      <p>
        Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe
        the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including XML
        dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS describes how elements
        should be rendered on screen, on paper, in speech, or on other media.
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2><a href="#">SVG</a></h2>
      <h3>Scalable Vector Graphics</h3>
      <p>
        Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based markup language for
        describing two-dimensional based vector graphics.
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2><a href="#">JS</a></h2>
      <h3>JavaScript</h3>
      <p>
        JavaScript (JS) is the web's native programming language. JavaScript is
        a lightweight, interpreted (or just-in-time compiled) programming
        language with first-class functions. While it is most well-known as the
        scripting language for web pages, many non-browser environments, such as
        Node.js, also use it.
      </p>
    </li>
  </ul>
  <article></article>
</main>

<form>
  <label for="match-element-checkbox">
    Apply <code>match-element</code> to list items?
  </label>
  <input type="checkbox" id="match-element-checkbox" checked />
</form>

const mainElem = document.querySelector("main");
let prevElem;
let checkboxElem = document.querySelector("input");

// View transition code
function updateActiveItem(event) {
  // Get the list item that contains the clicked link
  const clickedElem = event.target.parentElement.parentElement;

  // Set the active-item class on the list item
  clickedElem.className = "active-item";

  // Keep track of the previous item that was clicked, if any.
  // Remove the active-item class from the previous item so that only
  // one list item is placed over the <article> at any one time
  if (prevElem === clickedElem) {
    prevElem.className = "";
    prevElem = undefined;
  } else if (prevElem) {
    prevElem.className = "";
    prevElem = clickedElem;
  } else {
    prevElem = clickedElem;
  }
}

mainElem.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
  event.preventDefault(); // Prevent iframe from scrolling when clicked
  // Do nothing unless a link is clicked inside the <main> element
  if (event.target.tagName !== "A") {
    return;
  }

  // Run updateActiveItem() on its own if view transitions are not supported
  if (!document.startViewTransition) {
    updateActiveItem(event);
  } else {
    // Run updateActiveItem() via startViewTransition()
    const transition = document.startViewTransition(() =>
      updateActiveItem(event),
    );
  }
});

// Toggle the class on <main> to control whether or not match-element is applied

checkboxElem.addEventListener("change", () => {
  mainElem.classList.toggle("match-element-applied");
});

body {
  font: 1.2em / 1.5 sans-serif;
  width: 50%;
  max-width: 700px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

section,
.change-me {
  border: 2px solid #666666;
  padding: 10px;
}

section {
  background-color: orange;
}

.change-me {
  background-color: white;
  view-transition-name: para-change;
  view-transition-scope: all;
}

::view-transition-group(para-change) {
  animation-duration: 1s;
}

<button>Update DOM</button>
<section>
  <div class="change-me"><span>I can change</span></div>
  <div class="change-me">
    <span>I can change</span>
    <div class="change-me"><span>I can change</span></div>
  </div>
  <div class="change-me"><span>I can change</span></div>
</section>

const btn = document.querySelector("button");
const divs = document.querySelectorAll("div");

function updateDivs() {
  divs.forEach((div) => {
    if (div.firstElementChild.textContent === "I can change") {
      div.firstElementChild.textContent = "I have changed";
      div.style.color = "white";
      div.style.backgroundColor = "black";
    } else {
      div.firstElementChild.textContent = "I can change";
      div.style.color = "black";
      div.style.backgroundColor = "white";
    }
  });
}

btn.addEventListener("click", handleClick);

function handleClick(e) {
  if (!document.startViewTransition) {
    updateDivs();
    return;
  }
  document.startViewTransition(() => {
    updateDivs();
  });
}

html {
  --bg: indigo;
}
main {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 5px;
}
section {
  background-color: var(--bg);
  height: 60px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}
::view-transition-group(root) {
  animation-duration: 2s;
}

h2 {
  display: none;
  color: white;
}
:root:active-view-transition h2 {
  display: block;
}
:root:active-view-transition button {
  visibility: hidden;
}

<main>
  <section class="color">
    <h2>Color is changing!</h2>
  </section>
  <button id="change-color">Change Color</button>
</main>

const colors = ["darkred", "darkslateblue", "darkgreen"];
const colBlock = document.querySelector(".color");
let count = 0;
const updateColor = () => {
  colBlock.style = `--bg: ${colors[count]}`;
  count = count !== colors.length - 1 ? ++count : 0;
};
const changeColor = () => {
  if (!document.startViewTransition) {
    updateColor();
    return;
  }
  const transition = document.startViewTransition(() => {
    updateColor();
  });
};
const changeColorButton = document.querySelector("#change-color");
changeColorButton.addEventListener("click", changeColor);
changeColorButton.addEventListener("keypress", changeColor);

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
}

body {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

div {
  display: flex;
  width: 60%;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

p {
  font-size: 1.7em;
  width: 60%;
  color: blue;
  margin-top: 0;
}

html:active-view-transition {
  :root {
    view-transition-name: none;
  }
  p {
    view-transition-name: slide;
  }
}

html:active-view-transition-type(forwards) {
  &::view-transition-old(slide) {
    animation-name: slide-out-to-left;
  }
  &::view-transition-new(slide) {
    animation-name: slide-in-from-right;
  }
}

html:active-view-transition-type(backwards) {
  &::view-transition-old(slide) {
    animation-name: slide-out-to-right;
  }
  &::view-transition-new(slide) {
    animation-name: slide-in-from-left;
  }
}

@keyframes slide-in-from-left {
  from {
    translate: -100vw 0;
  }
}
@keyframes slide-in-from-right {
  from {
    translate: 100vw 0;
  }
}
@keyframes slide-out-to-left {
  to {
    translate: -100vw 0;
  }
}
@keyframes slide-out-to-right {
  to {
    translate: 100vw 0;
  }
}

<p>This is my first piece of content. I hope you like it!</p>
<div>
  <button id="backwards">Backwards</button>
  <button id="forwards">Forwards</button>
</div>

const backBtn = document.getElementById("backwards");
const fwdBtn = document.getElementById("forwards");
const content = document.querySelector("p");

const first = "This is my first piece of content. I hope you like it!";
const second =
  "This is my second piece of content. Is it better than the first?";

backBtn.addEventListener("click", changeContent);
fwdBtn.addEventListener("click", changeContent);

function changeContent(e) {
  const type = e.target === backBtn ? "backwards" : "forwards";
  document.startViewTransition({
    update() {
      content.textContent === first
        ? (content.textContent = second)
        : (content.textContent = first);
    },
    types: [type],
  });
}