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Exploring CSS 3D Transforms

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Darn, your browser seems unable to display 3D Transforms.

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Here is our dear friend, the DOM element.

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For so long, we've had limited options: floats and positioning

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Web design is the ever-evolving art

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of placing DOM elements on the page

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However, there's a feature of CSS that unlocks a whole new dimension:

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CSS 3D Transforms

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You can use this inheritance to simulate more complex objects

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This slinky is not a spiral, but numerous nested <div>s

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A solar system only needs one element per celestial body.

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If you can read this, it means your browser cannot process the 3D transforms on this page.
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You can combine transforms with other CSS to create interesting effects

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(move your mouse around!)

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Back to our humble friend:

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We now have a whole new world for it to explore.

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Wall o' links 'n' resources:

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