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Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities

Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities
box-shadow From: 0 0 black To: 0 150px 10px -50px rgba(0,0,0,.5) Author: @leaverou

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CSS Animations with only one keyframe This is a very quick tip, about a pet peeve of mine in almost every CSS animation I see. As you may know, I’m a sucker for reducing the amount of code (as long as it remains human readable of course). I demonstrated a very similar example in my “CSS in the 4th dimension” talk, but I recently realized I never blogged about it (or seen anyone else do so).

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