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CSS: Wrong position of "transform: scale();" container children

I have a container element with long content which is scaled:

.container {
  transform: scale(0.9);
}

inside this container I have a child div which is used to be a popup. It's positioned absolute with top 50%

.popup {
  width: 300px;
  height: 200px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
}

but unfortunately when container is scaled this 50% is not working. I need to use ~240% if it appears on the bottom of a page.

Do you now some specifics on applying positioning on children of scaled elements?

DEMO: http://labs.voronianski.com/test/scaled-positioning.html

Solution

  • Add to .wrap:

    .wrap {
  ...
  position: relative;
  /*some prefix*/-transform-origin: 0 0;
}

    You'll need to reposition the .popup (now the reference frame is the .wrap, instead of the html element), but in Chrome the scale toggle works fine after this change.

    See: When using CSS Scale in Firefox, element keeps original position