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CSS: How to scale an image from the center instead of top-left

So my problem is that I have an image and I set its CSS to have a 

max-width: 100%

which scales it at lower resolutions ( as will be seen in the fiddle below ). What I want is for the transition to take effect from the center of the image.

Currently; and from what I have seen from most the transitions I have done involving scale they expand from the top-left corner.

here is my fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Eolis/3ya98xh8/3/

Solution

  • Just replace width: 400px; with transform: scale(2,2) on :hover.

    img {
    width: 100%; max-width: 100%;
}
div {
    position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 20%;
    width: 250px;
    transition: all 2s ease-in-out;
}
div:hover {
    transform: scale(2,2)
}
    <div>
    <a href="http://photobucket.com/images/cat" target="_blank">
        <img src="http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss278/campipr/coolcat.gif" border="0" alt="cat photo: cat coolcat.gif"/>
    </a>
</div>