CSS Transform scale, don't scale child element

Question

If I have a div with a few child elements and it's being css transform scaled. I've got one child element which I don't want to scale

#parent{
    -webkit-transform: scale(.5);
}
 
span:last-child{
    -webkit-transform: Something to ignore the parent scale;
}

<div id="parent">
    <span>Child 1</span>
    <span>Child 2</span>
    <span>Child 3 (Don't Scale Me)</span>
</div>

Can this be done with css only? Without changing the html or using js.

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is not possible.

You roughly have two other options though:

1. Scale all the other elements, excluding the one you don't want to scale (but this won't scale the container).
2. Scale the container and re-scale the element you don't want to scale (but this will probably make it look blurry).

Examples:

// Example 1.
span:not(:last-child) {
    display: inline-block; /* You can't scale inline elements */
    transform: scale(2);
}

// Example 2.
#parent{
    transform: scale(.5);
}

span:last-child{
    transform: scale(2);
}