Using CSS Transforms with TailwindCSS v1.2

You can now use CSS transforms right out of the box with TailwindCSS v1.2.

1<div class="origin-center transform scale-50 rotate-45 translate-x-full"></div>

With the above example, the div will be scaled 150%, rotated 45 degrees, translated to the right 100% of the width, and all transformations will be based around the center of the element.

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1<div class="transform scale-50">Scaled down</div>
2<div>
3  <div class="inline-block transform rotate-45">Rotated</div>
4</div>
5<div class="transform translate-x-1/2">Translated</div>

You can even combine these with CSS transitions (read more about that here):

1<div class="inline-block py-12">
2  <div class="inline-block p-2 text-white transition-transform duration-1000 ease-out transform rotate-45 bg-red-500 hover:-rotate-45">Hover me to rotate!</div>
3</div>
4<div class="inline-block ml-8 transition-transform duration-1000 ease-out transform hover:translate-x-1/2">Hover me to slide!</div>

Alright, so let's get into what properties are available by default with Tailwind.

origin-*

You can use this property to set the origin of the transformation.

 1{
 2  center: 'center',
 3  top: 'top',
 4  'top-right': 'top right',
 5  right: 'right',
 6  'bottom-right': 'bottom right',
 7  bottom: 'bottom',
 8  'bottom-left': 'bottom left',
 9  left: 'left',
10  'top-left': 'top left',
11}

scale-*, scale-x-*, scale-y-*

As expected, these will scale your element either horizontally, vertically, or both. Default scale values:

 1'0': '0',
 2'50': '.5',
 3'75': '.75',
 4'90': '.9',
 5'95': '.95',
 6'100': '1',
 7'105': '1.05',
 8'110': '1.1',
 9'125': '1.25',
10'150': '1.5',

rotate-*

This will apply the rotate transformation. Default rotate values are:

1'-180': '-180deg',
2'-90': '-90deg',
3'-45': '-45deg',
4'0': '0',
5'45': '45deg',
6'90': '90deg',
7'180': '180deg',

Note, that to apply the negative values, you need to prefix the "rotate" with a hyphen, just like negative margin, etc:

-rotate-45

translate-*, translate-x-*, translate-y-*

This will apply translate transformations to your element. Here are the default values:

1{
2  ...theme('spacing'),
3  ...negative(theme('spacing')),
4  '-full': '-100%',
5  '-1/2': '-50%',
6  '1/2': '50%',
7  full: '100%',
8}

The default values pull in all the spacing configuration values (used for margin, padding, etc).

skew-x-*, skew-y-*

This will apply a skew transformation on your element. Note that there are no default skew values provided.

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