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Summary

The animation-play-state CSS property determines whether an animation is running or paused. You can query this property's value to determine whether or not the animation is currently running; in addition, you can set its value to pause and resume playback of an animation.

Resuming a paused animation will start the animation from where it left off at the time it was paused, rather than starting over from the beginning of the animation sequence.

Syntax

animation-play-state: running | paused [, running | paused]*

Examples

See CSS animations for examples.

Specification

Browser compatibility

See also

• CSS animations
• AnimationEvent
• animation , animation-delay , animation-direction , animation-duration , animation-fill-mode , animation-iteration-count , animation-name , animation-play-state , animation-timing-function , @keyframes