Candidate Recommendation Draft · css-will-change

CSS Will Change

1 property defined by this specification, all known to at least one browser .

Read the Editor's Draft ↗ W3C Candidate Recommendation Draft ↗

The feature in detail

`will-change`

Property Baseline: widely availablesince July 2022

MDN The will-change CSS property enables optimizing animations by providing a rendering hint to a browser about how an element is expected to change.

Syntax

auto | <animateable-feature>#

Formal grammar from the specification, as webref extracts it: the latest level's definition, sometimes ahead of what browsers implement.

Definition

Initial: auto
Applies to: all elements
Inherited: no
Percentages: n/a
Computed value: specified value
Canonical order: per grammar
Animation type: not animatable

Browser support

First browser version supporting will-change
Chrome	36
Edge	79
Firefox	36
Safari	9.1
Chrome Android	36
Safari iOS	9.3

First version with support, from MDN browser-compat-data.

Specification ↗ MDN reference ↗