jargon

Frontend & browser·Routing and navigation

the element animated smoothly from its position on one page into its position on the next.

View transition

Also calledView Transitions API, cross-document transition

A browser API that snapshots the old and new states of a document and animates between them, including across real navigations. It replaces the elaborate machinery applications used to build to fake continuity between screens. It needs matching `view-transition-name` values on both sides, and every transition adds time before the new state is usable, so restraint is part of using it well.

Commonly confused with