6.3 2D Transformations

CSS 2D Transforms Methods The translate() Method The rotate() Method The scale() Method The scaleX() Method The scaleY() Method The skewX() Method The skewY() Method The skew() Method The matrix() Method

CSS transforms allow you to move, rotate, scale, and skew elements.

CSS 2D Transforms Methods

With the CSS transform property you can use the following 2D transformation methods:

translate()

rotate()

scaleX()

scaleY()

scale()

skewX()

skewY()

skew()

matrix()

The translate() Method

The translate() method moves an element from its current position (according to the parameters given for the X-axis and the Y-axis).

The rotate() Method

The rotate() method rotates an element clockwise or counter-clockwise according to a given degree.

Using negative values will rotate the element counter-clockwise.

The scale() Method

The scale() method increases or decreases the size of an element (according to the parameters given for the width and height).

The scaleX() Method

The scaleX() method increases or decreases the width of an element.

The scaleY() Method

The scaleY() method increases or decreases the height of an element.

The skewX() Method

The skewX() method skews an element along the X-axis by the given angle.

The skewY() Method

The skewY() method skews an element along the Y-axis by the given angle(difficult to do with our triangle so just imagine it)

The skew() Method

The skew() method skews an element along the X and Y-axis by the given angles. If the second parameter is not specified, it has a zero value.

The matrix() Method

The matrix() method combines all the 2D transform methods into one.

The matrix() method take six parameters, containing mathematic functions, which allows you to rotate, scale, move (translate), and skew elements.

The parameters are as follow: matrix(scaleX(),skewY(),skewX(),scaleY(),translateX(),translateY())

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