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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