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 When creating animations, it's recommended that you only use the `opacity` and `transform` CSS rules, since these can be hardware-accelerated by modern browsers and yield better performance than animating `top`, `left`, `width`, and `height`.
 
-It's also recommended that you avoid the `box-shadow` rule and selectors like `:nth-child`, since these are also resource intensive options. Other things that can be expensive include large or dynamically scaled images and overlapping elements with different `position` values (e.g. an absolute postioned element over a fixed element).
+It's also recommended that you avoid the `box-shadow` rule and selectors like `:nth-child`, since these are also resource intensive options. If you want to animate a `box-shadow`, consider [putting the `box-shadow` rule on a pseudo element, and animate that element's opacity instead](http://tobiasahlin.com/blog/how-to-animate-box-shadow/). Other things that can be expensive include large or dynamically scaled images and overlapping elements with different `position` values (e.g. an absolute postioned element over a fixed element).