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CSSTransition: transitionProperty property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2020⁩.

The transitionProperty property of the CSSTransition interface returns the expanded transition property name of the transition. This is the longhand CSS property for which the transition was generated.

Value

A string.

Examples

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Returning the transitionProperty

The transition in the following example changes the width of the box on hover. Calling Element.getAnimations() returns an array of all Animation objects. In our case this returns a CSSTransition object, representing the animation created. The transitionProperty property returns the property that the transition is created for, which is width.

.box {
  background-color: #165baa;
  color: white;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  transition: width 4s;
}

.box:hover {
  width: 200px;
}
const item = document.querySelector(".box");
item.addEventListener("transitionrun", () => {
  let animations = document.querySelector(".box").getAnimations();
  console.log(animations[0].propertyName);
});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
transitionProperty 84 84 75 70 13.1 84 79 60 13.4 14.0 84 13.4

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSTransition/transitionProperty