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Scroll Path Timeline — Free Website Section Template
Scroll effects · v1.0.0 · Updated 2026-10-22 · Responsive · GSAP animation · HTML, React & Vue
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Features
About this section
Scroll Path Timeline — Free SVG Draw-on-Scroll Section

Scroll Path Timeline connects milestones with a hand-drawn SVG line that draws itself as visitors scroll. Each milestone lights up the moment the line reaches it, so the page feels like it is telling the story in real time.
SVG that follows your theme
The line is inline SVG coloured with the theme's brand colour, and the milestone dots use your icons, so it matches any preset or brand kit with no image files.
Milestones you can edit
Add 2 to 10 milestones, each with a date or label, an icon, a title and text. On wide screens they alternate left and right of the line; on narrow screens they line up on one side.
Visible without JavaScript
Without JavaScript or with reduced motion the line is fully drawn and every milestone is shown. With GSAP the stroke is scrubbed from hidden to drawn using its own length, no plugin needed. Export HTML, a ZIP, React or Vue.
Getting the most from it
Use it for a sequence that really has an order, such as a company history, a project roadmap, an onboarding journey or a wedding day schedule. Keep milestone titles short and put the year or step number in the label so the path reads as a timeline even at a glance. Six to eight milestones work best; past that, the line becomes long and visitors skim. Add a short sentence under each title that says what changed, not just what happened.
Why use it
Why Use the Scroll Path Timeline
How it’s different
How It’s Different From Other Free Section Templates
Step by step
How to Use
- 1Edit the contentFill in the heading and milestones in the panel. Wrap words in *asterisks* to colour them.
- 2Add your imagesUpload your own images (resized in your browser and kept on your device) or paste a hosted image URL.
- 3Match your brandPick a colour preset or exact colours, choose heading and body fonts from Google Fonts or your own uploaded font, set the corner radius and width, or apply your brand kit.
- 4Animate and previewThis section is driven by scrolling: scroll inside the preview to see the effect, press Refresh to restart it from the top, and check the section on desktop, tablet and mobile.
- 5Save and exportSave it to My designs, then export a single HTML file, a ZIP with your images, a React or Vue component, or fork it into My Code.
Real-world uses
Common Use Cases
In real websites
Website Templates That Use the Scroll Path Timeline Section
The Scroll Path Timeline section is part of 3 complete website templates in the free Website Builder, so you can see it in a full page before you use it on its own: Wedding Website, Law Firm Website, Church Website. Open any of them in the builder to edit the whole page, or keep customising this section by itself.
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
The path’s stroke is dashed to its own length and GSAP scrubs the dash offset from hidden to fully drawn while the timeline crosses the screen. No DrawSVG plugin is needed.
Yes. The path is a plain SVG path in the HTML; replace its d attribute in the exported code with any curve and the drawing still works because it measures the path’s length.
They are dimmed and slightly lowered, then fade in fully as the line arrives. Without JavaScript they are all shown normally.
Yes. From 900px wide the milestones alternate on both sides of a centred line; below that the line runs down the left with all milestones on the right.
It saves an editable copy of your Scroll Path Timeline in My Code, the UI Snippets code editor: the section markup goes in the HTML panel, its CSS (theme variables, base styles and layout) in the CSS panel, and the GSAP library is added as a CDN link, so you can keep refining the code and save your own versions.
Yes. Every section is free for personal and commercial work, with no account, no watermark and no attribution: export it on its own as HTML, React, Vue or Next.js from its page, or use it in a website you build and export in the Website Builder.