# CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

DevFeed: [CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/css-navigation-matching-early-days-4259.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://css-tricks.com/css-navigation-matching-early-days/>)

Author: Geoff Graham

Published: 2026-08-19T14:44:41Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CSS-Tricks](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/css-tricks.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [css-navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css-navigation.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [view-transitions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/view-transitions.md>)

## AI overview

An early look at CSS Navigation Matching for declaratively styling cross-document view transitions based on navigation routes and URL patterns.

## Source excerpt

Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.