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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, 2nd Edition
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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, 2nd Edition

by Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris, Alexis Goldstein
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 32m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 8 CSS3 Transforms and Transitions

Our page is fairly static. Actually, it’s completely static. In Chapter 4 we learned a little about how to alter a form’s appearance based on its state with the :invalid and :valid pseudo-classes. But what about really moving things around? What about changing the appearance of elements, such as rotating or skewing them?

For years, the only way to display text on an angle was to use an image of text created in an image-editing program and the only way to animate was to change positioning with JavaScript. This is far from ideal. Enter CSS3: without a line of JavaScript or a single JPEG, you can tilt, scale, move, and even flip your elements with ease.

Let’s see how it’s done.

Transforms

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