perspective-origin CSS property

The perspective-origin CSS property determines the position at which the viewer is looking. It is used as the vanishing point by the perspective property.

Try it

perspective-origin: center;

perspective-origin: top;

perspective-origin: bottom right;

perspective-origin: -170%;

perspective-origin: 500% 200%;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
 <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
 <div class="face front">1</div>
 <div class="face back">2</div>
 <div class="face right">3</div>
 <div class="face left">4</div>
 <div class="face top">5</div>
 <div class="face bottom">6</div>
 </div>
</section>

#default-example {
 background: linear-gradient(skyblue, khaki);
 perspective: 550px;
}
#example-element {
 width: 100px;
 height: 100px;
 transform-style: preserve-3d;
 perspective: 250px;
}
.face {
 display: flex;
 align-items: center;
 justify-content: center;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 position: absolute;
 backface-visibility: inherit;
 font-size: 60px;
 color: white;
}
.front {
 background: rgb(90 90 90 / 0.7);
 transform: translateZ(50px);
}
.back {
 background: rgb(0 210 0 / 0.7);
 transform: rotateY(180deg) translateZ(50px);
}
.right {
 background: rgb(210 0 0 / 0.7);
 transform: rotateY(90deg) translateZ(50px);
}
.left {
 background: rgb(0 0 210 / 0.7);
 transform: rotateY(-90deg) translateZ(50px);
}
.top {
 background: rgb(210 210 0 / 0.7);
 transform: rotateX(90deg) translateZ(50px);
}
.bottom {
 background: rgb(210 0 210 / 0.7);
 transform: rotateX(-90deg) translateZ(50px);
}

The perspective-origin and perspective properties are attached to the parent of a child transformed in 3-dimensional space, unlike the perspective() transform function which is placed on the element being transformed.

Syntax

/* One-value syntax */
perspective-origin: x-position;
/* Two-value syntax */
perspective-origin: x-position y-position;
/* When both x-position and y-position are keywords,
 the following is also valid */
perspective-origin: y-position x-position;
/* Global values */
perspective-origin: inherit;
perspective-origin: initial;
perspective-origin: revert;
perspective-origin: revert-layer;
perspective-origin: unset;

Values

x-position

Indicates the position of the abscissa of the vanishing point. It can have one of the following values:

• <length-percentage> indicating the position as an absolute length value or relative to the width of the element. The value may be negative.
• left, a keyword being a shortcut for the 0 length value.
• center, a keyword being a shortcut for the 50% percentage value.
• right, a keyword being a shortcut for the 100% percentage value.

y-position

Indicates the position of the ordinate of the vanishing point. It can have one of the following values:

• <length-percentage> indicating the position as an absolute length value or relative to the height of the element. The value may be negative.
• top, a keyword being a shortcut for the 0 length value.
• center, a keyword being a shortcut for the 50% percentage value.
• bottom, a keyword being a shortcut for the 100% percentage value.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

perspective-origin = 
 <position> 

<position> = 
 <position-one> | 
 <position-two> | 
 <position-four> 

<position-one> = 
 left | 
 center | 
 right | 
 top | 
 bottom | 
 x-start | 
 x-end | 
 y-start | 
 y-end | 
 block-start | 
 block-end | 
 inline-start | 
 inline-end | 
 <length-percentage> 

<position-two> = 
 [ left | center | right | x-start | x-end ] && [ top | center | bottom | y-start | y-end ] | 
 [ left | center | right | x-start | x-end | <length-percentage> ] [ top | center | bottom | y-start | y-end | <length-percentage> ] | 
 [ block-start | center | block-end ] && [ inline-start | center | inline-end ] | 
 [ start | center | end ] {2} 

<position-four> = 
 [ [ left | right | x-start | x-end ] <length-percentage> ] && [ [ top | bottom | y-start | y-end ] <length-percentage> ] | 
 [ [ block-start | block-end ] <length-percentage> ] && [ [ inline-start | inline-end ] <length-percentage> ] | 
 [ [ start | end ] <length-percentage> ] {2} 

<length-percentage> = 
 <length> | 
 <percentage> 

Examples

Changing the perspective origin

An example showing how to change perspective-origin is given in Using CSS transforms > Changing the perspective origin.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Using CSS Transforms
• transform-style
• <transform-function>
• perspective
• transform: perspective() function