What is Smooth scrolling?
The short answer
Smooth scrolling eases the page's movement so scrolling glides rather than jumps, either natively in the browser or with a library that interpolates scroll position.
What people say: “buttery scroll”.
Smooth scrolling, explained
It makes scroll-linked effects feel polished, but it must never fight the visitor's own input or break the keyboard and screen readers.
Questions people ask about Smooth scrolling
What is Smooth scrolling?
Smooth scrolling eases the page's movement so scrolling glides rather than jumps, either natively in the browser or with a library that interpolates scroll position.
Related terms
Scroll-driven animation ties an animation's progress to scroll position instead of time, so elements animate exactly as far as the reader has scrolled.
Parallax scrollingParallax scrolling moves background and foreground layers at different speeds as you scroll, creating an illusion of depth.
60 fps60 fps means the screen updates sixty times a second, the baseline for motion that looks smooth; each frame has about 16 milliseconds to be ready.
Micro-interactionsMicro-interactions are small, single-purpose animations that respond to what a visitor does, like a button that presses in, a heart that fills or a field that shakes on an error.
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