CSS Transitions with :before and :after pseudo elements

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cjroebuck picture cjroebuck · Mar 21, 2012 · Viewed 39k times · Source

Can't seem to animate pseudo elements with -webkit-transition. The fiddle below shows what I mean when run in Chrome/Safari, I guess this isn't supported right now?

http://jsfiddle.net/4rnsx/130/

Answer

Aurelio picture Aurelio · Feb 18, 2013

Well, actually, you can.

You just need to leverage the often forgotten inherit value. Unfortunately we can't (yet) directly target pseudo-elements with custom animations, but we surely can let them share the same animation of the "parent" element by inheriting the properties we wish to animate.

See my fiddle here.

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