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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 withoutperspective
.
Browser support

Chrome

Edge

Firefox

IE

Opera

Safari
Mobile browser support

Chrome

Firefox

Opera
