How to create a standing up 3D text effect with Css3 transforms

Question

I'm looking to recreate an effect like this with CSS 3D Transforms:

How do I achieve this? Here's what I've got so far

 body { perspective: 400px; transition: perspective 1s; } .grid { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; background-image: url("http://i.imgur.com/3ACizko.jpg"); background-size: cover; height: 400px; width: 400px; transform: rotateX(60deg); margin: 0 auto; transition: transform 1s; perspective: 400px; } .grid p { transition: transform 1s; transform: rotateX(-60deg); } 

 <div class="grid"> <p>Hello</p> </div> 

I thought that if I rotated the background surface 60 degrees and rotated the text -60 degrees it would cancel out the effect but apparently not?

Anyway, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, ther solution to your problem is using transform-style: preserve-3d.

But the problem with this is that IE does not support this property

A way to make it work in IE is to use a pseudo element on the p

 .grid { font-size: 30px; position: relative; left: 100px; top: 200px; perspective: 200px; perspective-origin: 0% 50%; } .grid:after { content: ""; position: absolute; width: 300px; height: 200px; top: -100px; left: -100px; transform: rotateX(30deg); background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, transparent 0px, transparent 47px, black 47px, black 50px), repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, transparent 0px, transparent 47px, black 47px, black 50px); } 

 <p class="grid">Hello</p> 

Answer 2

After a bit of research, I am confident to post my own answer.

This effect can be achieved using the transform-style property, and setting it to preserve-3d . This would be set to the parent element (in this case, .grid). I also use transform-origin:bottom to raise the text from inside the grid. Here's the snippet:

 body { perspective: 400px; transition: perspective 1s; } .grid { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; background-image: url("http://i.imgur.com/3ACizko.jpg"); background-size: cover; height: 400px; width: 400px; transform: rotateX(60deg); margin: 0 auto; transition: transform 1s; perspective: 400px; transform-style:preserve-3d; } .grid p { transition: transform 1s; transform-origin:bottom; transform: rotateX(-60deg); } 

 <div class="grid"> <p>Hello</p> </div>