# Stagger Fade (`.sds-scroll-stagger-fade`)

Children fade in one by one in a staggered sequence. Scroll animation in SDS Motion Forge v5.0.0. It plays once when scrolled into view.

- Page: https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-stagger-fade/
- Category: Scroll (https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/categories/scroll/)
- Animated properties: opacity
- Compositor-only: yes
- Needs child elements: yes
- Needs per-character spans: no
- JavaScript: sds-scroll (optional)

## Use it

```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@salkomdesignstudio/sds-motion-forge/dist/categories/scroll.min.css" />

<div class="sds-scroll-stagger-fade" data-sds>
  <div>One</div>
  <div>Two</div>
  <div>Three</div>
</div>
```

## How it works

Plays when the element enters the viewport (gated by data-sds + the scroll engine, or fire it yourself by adding the class). It animates opacity — compositor-only, so it never causes page reflow. Timing is fixed for this effect, but you can still override animation-duration/timing-function on the element. The animation runs on the element's direct children — it needs child elements to be visible.

## Related

- [Stagger Grid](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-stagger-grid/)
- [Stagger Pop](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-stagger-pop/)
- [Stagger Rise](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-stagger-rise/)
- [Stagger Slide](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-stagger-slide/)
- [Spiral](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-spiral/)
- [Split Reveal](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-split/)
- [Spring](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-spring/)