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Spice up your site with quick & easy theme transitions

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Spice up your site with quick & easy theme transitions

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Turns out that view transitions make it incredibly easy to make theme transitions, and in this one I look at some very simple, and some slightly over-the-top solutions 😊.

This is the final version from the video, but I also showed a cool “wave” transition, a rotating cube transition, and a “throw away” example during the intro as well.

📝 Quiz time!

Which of the following CSS properties allows us to resize image elements within their boxes, the same way we can do `background-size: cover` or `background-size: contain` for background images?

  1. image-position
  2. image-size
  3. object-fit
  4. object-size

As per usual, you'll have to head on over to YouTube to take a stab at the quiz, and once you answer, you'll see if you were right or not.

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