Chromium Viewport Scroll and Transform Hierarchy
Blink28623 Okt 2025

Chromium Viewport Scroll and Transform Hierarchy

The provided document explains how Chromium's rendering engine structures the components responsible for scrolling and visual positioning, primarily through nested scroll property trees and transform property trees. Specifically, it details the crucial distinction between the inner viewport scroll node (representing the visual viewport, crucial for pinch-zooming and panning) and the outer viewport scroll node (representing the layout viewport, crucial for normal page scrolling). This architecture ensures that position-fixed elements are placed high in the transform hierarchy, allowing them to move with the visual viewport during a zoom/pan but remain stationary relative to the layout viewport during a normal page scroll. Ultimately, the source describes how these linked node hierarchies coordinate geometric transformations and scroll propagation to correctly render complex web page movements and browser UI interactions.

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Structural and Architectural Patterns in Blink and CC

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