CSS Anchor Positioning and Scroll-Driven Animations enable new possibilities in web development, previously possible only with JavaScript. This post demonstrates how to use these CSS features to pop footnotes as comments on the sides of text in a blog post. It covers the foundation, positioning the footnotes using anchors, and animating them as they come into view. The post also addresses how to handle footnotes for mobile screens, making them display as regular notes when screen space is limited.

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The FoundationPositioning the FootnotesThe View-Driven AnimationWhat About Mobile?Wrapping Up2 Comments
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