CSS Perspective and Perspective-Origin Properties

CSS perspective explained

By using the CSS perspective property, you can specify the distance of a 3D element in pixels:

div {
    -webkit-perspective: 60px; /* Opera, Safari, Chrome */
    perspective: 6000px;
}

Note: CSS perspective does not change the rendering of the element. For that, use transform: perspective().

The syntax for CSS perspective

The only value you need to define is the distance:

perspective: distance;

The default value is none, which means no CSS perspective transformations. You can set a custom value by using length units (e.g., pixels or ems).

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Defining the CSS perspective origin

When you're using the perspective CSS property, the center of the element becomes its vanishing point by default. To define a custom point, you can also apply perspective-origin:

div {
    -webkit-perspective: 250px; /* Opera, Chrome, Safari */
    -webkit-perspective-origin: 25% 25%; /* Opera, Chrome, Safari */
    perspective: 250px;
    perspective-origin: 25% 25%;  	
}

The syntax for this property is rather simple – you need to specify the position in relation to both horizontal and vertical axes:

perspective-origin: x-axis y-axis;

You can use use percentages or keywords – left, center, or right for the horizontal and top, center, or bottom for the vertical value.

Note: CSS perspective-origin will not work without perspective.

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