Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript

Posted by Garora on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:26AM
from the blog.scottlogic.com dept.

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by skaiuijing on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:18AM (#47309422)

This is such a clever little hack. Amazing what people can pull off with just HTML and CSS.

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by Jonaton on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:49AM (#47309872)

Im constantly in awe

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by Garora on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:26AM (#47308776)

A walkthrough on how flappy bird can be (and has been) made using pure HTML and CSS, no processors and fully functinal wihtout JavaScript

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by fuzzfactor on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:02AM (#47309195)

>>The game looks kind of ugly. Have you considered adding pretty styling?

>I’ve never heard of CSS being used for styling, but anything is possible, I guess.

>>Why is the bird square?

>I have a square bird for ornithological accuracy and not because it made collision detection easier.

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by Garora on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:08AM (#47309293)

100% truth from me there

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by George122 on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:25AM (#47309525)

I did chuckle at that

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Re:Flappy Bird Made in Pure HTML and CSS – Without JavaScript by George122 on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:35AM (#47308894)

This is insane

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