CSS Blink Hacks

Discussions revolve around CSS techniques recreating retro effects like blinking text and marquees, including invisible text tricks, text shadows, and user tips for disabling or inspecting them via dev tools.

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greggman25 Mar 2, 2025 View on HN

related:https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10674

jwilk Aug 2, 2017 View on HN

The text is there, just invisible. Disable CSS and it'll show up.

bo_Olean Mar 3, 2011 View on HN

i was just injecting JSes with bookmarklets. got to see CSS tricks too, thanks for sharing this. nothing blinks on HN though ;)

encryptluks2 Mar 2, 2022 View on HN

This relies on JS... so really not CSS magic at all.

stuaxo Dec 29, 2017 View on HN

A css assistant that can answer the question "why is this over here".(for when some elementary appears where you don't expect it).It could do stuff like try changing the size of various elements to see what rule changes move things.

narad Jun 7, 2011 View on HN

OMG. blinking background! Irritating.If you want to read those content, disable the stylesheets using "Web Developer Tool".

dmitriid May 12, 2021 View on HN

No, it can't be done in HTML+CSS in a performant way.

afdfadfqe6 Jan 12, 2022 View on HN

Seems to need javascript; I get a blank screen otherwise. For 'pure CSS' I wasn't expecting that.

lukifer Feb 9, 2019 View on HN

Complete with tag, re-implemented with CSS3 animations. Well-played, Marvel.

aaronz3 Nov 12, 2009 View on HN

What we really need instead is a visibility:blink; CSS property. ;)