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Chris Coyier

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Jun 6, 2017

3d perspective-origin

The perspective-origin property determines the origin for the perspective property. Think of it as the vanishing point of the current 3D-space.

Note as for the perspective property, perspective-origin has to be defined on the parent element in order to give the transformed children depth.

The perspective-origin property doesn’t do anything by itself. It has to be defined on an element along with perspective.

/**
 * Syntax 
 * perspective-origin: x-position
 * perspective-origin: x-position y-position
 * 
 * perspective-origin: &lt;percentage> | &lt;length> | constants | inherit
 */

.element1 { perspective-origin: 25% 75%; }

.element2 { perspective-origin: 10px 25px; }

.element3 { perspective-origin: left bottom; }

Below is a demo showing how a 3D cube behaves when altering its vanishing point by changing the perspective-origin value (constants).

Check out this Pen!

Hey, let’s animate the perspective-origin, just for fun!

Check out this Pen!

It starts at `0% 0%` (top left)
Then go to `100% 0%` (top right)
Then to `100% 100%` (bottom right)
Then to `0% 100%` (bottom left)
Then go back to 1. and restart

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This browser support data is from Caniuse, which has more detail. A number indicates that browser supports the feature at that version and up.

Desktop

Chrome	Firefox	IE	Edge	Safari
12*	10*	11	12	4*

Mobile / Tablet

Android Chrome	Android Firefox	Android	iOS Safari
80	68	3*	3.2*

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Nick

Permalink to comment# March 28, 2013

That’s pretty awesome.

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Phil Thompson

Permalink to comment# July 15, 2013

For some reason this isn’t working in chrome on my work machine, It has chrome 28 running on ubuntu, it seams like none of the 3D effects seam to work in this version of chrome on ubuntu.

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joker

Permalink to comment# September 13, 2018

Thanks for your good job.

But I just hava a question after having read your article

You said “The perspective-origin property determines the origin for the perspective property. Think of it as the vanishing point of the current 3D-space.” in your article

In css3 3d transform spec it says “The ‘perspective-origin’ property establishes the origin for the perspective property. It effectively sets the X and Y position at which the viewer appears to be looking at the children of the element.”

I think viewer is viewpoint.so,Is the viewpoint and vanishing point coincide in 3D transform? Thanks for your help

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