# Typewriter (`.sds-scroll-typewriter`)

Reveals in discrete steps from left to right like a typewriter printing. 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-typewriter/
- Category: Scroll (https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/categories/scroll/)
- Animated properties: clip-path
- Compositor-only: yes
- Needs child elements: no
- 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-typewriter" data-sds>Scrolls into view</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 a clip-path mask — 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.

## Related

- [Thermal](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-thermal/)
- [Tidal](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-tidal/)
- [Tilt Reveal](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-tilt/)
- [Unfold](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-unfold/)
- [Unfurl](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-unfurl/)
- [Velvet Drop Scroll](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/scroll-velvet/)