Page Transitions

Internet Explorer could wipe, dissolve or checkerboard from one page to the next, set by a meta tag, and the hobby web went wild with it.

In 2026: Dead. The Page-Enter and Page-Exit meta tags with revealTrans were an Internet Explorer feature no other browser adopted, and modern Edge ignores them too. The tags below are inert, so the page just appears. Transition number 23 was random, which meant a lot of 1998 homepages greeted you with a different wipe every time.

Where it came from: Microsoft DirectAnimation revealTrans page transitions, Internet Explorer 4, 1997. Wikipedia ↗

<!-- Wipe INTO this page over two seconds, transition 23 (random) -->
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=23)">

<!-- And dissolve OUT when leaving it -->
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="revealTrans(Duration=1.5,Transition=12)">

<!-- transitions ran 0 to 23: box in, box out, circle, wipes,
     blinds, checkerboards, random dissolve, and the random pick -->

<h2>This page arrived with no animation at all.</h2>