Jake Archibald • 6/17/2025

Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes

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This technical article investigates a quirky 'swooping' animation seen when zooming into images using CSS transforms. It demonstrates how the order of `scale()` and `translate()` functions, and even the presence of a seemingly neutral `rotate(0)`, can drastically change the animation's path, explaining the behavior according to the CSS specification.

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