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By Chris Coyier Last Updated On

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: <percentage> | <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).

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

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

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12+ Any 10+ None 10+ 3+ Any

Firefox 10-15 need -moz-, WebKit browsers may need -webkit-.

Comments

  1. Nick
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    That’s pretty awesome.

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  2. Phil Thompson
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    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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