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  You have crafted a perfect parallax hero section. You attach   animation-timeline: scroll()   to your elements, expecting them to translate smoothly as the user descends the page. Instead, the elements remain static, or worse, they animate based on the wrong container—jittering inside a small overflow wrapper instead of flowing with the viewport. The CSS Scroll-Driven Animations API is powerful, but its reliance on DOM hierarchy and implicit scroll containers creates significant "silent failures." The browser doesn't throw an error; the timeline simply never progresses. This post dissects why  scroll()  fails in complex layouts and implements the solution using  Named Timelines  and  Timeline Scope Hoisting . The Root Cause: Implicit Scoping and the  nearest  Trap By default, writing  animation-timeline: scroll()  is shorthand for  animation-timeline: scroll(nearest block) . When the browser parses this, it traverses up ...