.agents/skills/vercel-react-best-practices/rules/rendering-animate-svg-wrapper.md
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structure:
  state/CURRENT.md — 2-4 line session state (rewritten each session)
  events/ — json event bus (pull-based, optional context)
  persistent/ — important decisions (one doc per decision)
  emit — helper script for emitting events
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Animate SVG Wrapper Instead of SVG Element LOW enables hardware acceleration rendering, svg, css, animation, performance

Animate SVG Wrapper Instead of SVG Element

Many browsers don't have hardware acceleration for CSS3 animations on SVG elements. Wrap SVG in a <div> and animate the wrapper instead.

Incorrect (animating SVG directly - no hardware acceleration):

function LoadingSpinner() {
  return (
    <svg 
      className="animate-spin"
      width="24" 
      height="24" 
      viewBox="0 0 24 24"
    >
      <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10" stroke="currentColor" />
    </svg>
  )
}

Correct (animating wrapper div - hardware accelerated):

function LoadingSpinner() {
  return (
    <div className="animate-spin">
      <svg 
        width="24" 
        height="24" 
        viewBox="0 0 24 24"
      >
        <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10" stroke="currentColor" />
      </svg>
    </div>
  )
}

This applies to all CSS transforms and transitions (transform, opacity, translate, scale, rotate). The wrapper div allows browsers to use GPU acceleration for smoother animations.