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CSS CSS Transitions and Transforms Getting Started with CSS Transforms Changing the Transform Position with transform-origin

Posted by Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
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Setting The "transform-origin" value to 100% 100%

Why does setting the y-axis value to 100% moves the origin to bottom instead of top?

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Kristina Burge
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Kristina Burge
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According to MDN, the y-offset describes how far from the top edge of the box the origin of the transform is set.

So, the y-axis starts at 0% (top) and ends at 100% (bottom).