Ben Frain • 2/13/2026

Scroll indicators on tables with background colours using animation-timeline

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This article details a CSS solution for adding scroll shadow indicators to HTML tables that have alternating row background colors. It explains overcoming the limitation of traditional methods by using CSS Grid, sticky positioning, and the animation-timeline property with scroll() to create functional, visually layered indicators that appear above the table's background.

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