Multi-page sites get a bad reputation for feeling clunky, and it's almost always for one specific reason: the white flash. You click a link, the whole page goes blank for a fraction of a second, and then the new content pops in. It's such a normal part of the web that most of us stopped noticing it years ago — right up until we use a site that doesn't do it, and suddenly every other site feels dated by comparison.
That flash isn't actually a law of nature. It's just what happens by default when a browser swaps documents. And as of Chrome 126, Edge 126, Safari 18.2, and Opera 112, you can turn it off with one line of CSS.
@view-transition {
navigation: auto;
}
