Captions on hover are smoother and cooler with a touch of animation. With the power of CSS3, we can create transitions that are hardware accelerated and therefore performance-optimised (or way faster!) than anything you can cook up with JavaScript.

Here's a simple CSS solution to create those lovely embossed effects on lines and text in your content. I've cooked up a quick demo on a subtle grey background image.

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