Scale On Hover With Transition

Glenn N.

# May 12, 2010

I was able to achieve the enlarging in Firefox by doing -moz-transition: scale(1.4); but the animation part does not work. Does Firefox have an equivalent to the ease-in-out?

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Alhadis

Permalink to comment# May 29, 2010

At the moment, the current stable release of Firefox doesn’t support transitions, no.

But the nightly build of Firefox (3.7) is supposed to have support for transitions, under the vendor prefix “-moz-transition:”. Since 3.7 isn’t a stable build yet, we’ll just have to wait in the meantime. =)

The CSS3 spec for transitions might actually be finalised by the time Firefox 3.7 is released to public, so there mightn’t even be a need for using the vendor-specific prefix.
Akhil

Permalink to comment# January 8, 2015

Its really Cool… Thanks
Amee

Permalink to comment# March 10, 2015

Ya its really working.
simple code
and simple zoom.

thank you so much
Bùi Quang Trung

Permalink to comment# August 2, 2022

thansk to you, my saint

Richard Nash

# December 2, 2010

I have a question about this technique.

I’m trying to employ the same thing for a nav ul of mine, but the issue is when I hover and the current link scales, it covers up the other links, plus it does not returning smoothly to the beginning; it jumps. I don’t have a clue as how to make the other nav elements move, or be pushed out of the way, by the nav link that is scaling currently, or how to fix the the jumpieness of the link when I mouse away from it. I’m very new to web design (6 months) so my knowledge is swiss cheese right now. I would appreciate some help on the issue, as I’m a little lost currently.

Here is my css for ul. I’m sure I’m missing some obvious stuff, so any help will be much appreciated!

#intro-container ul {
font-size: 20px;
float: right;
margin: 20px 0;
padding: 80px 0 0 0;
text-align: right;
list-style: none;
}

#intro-container ul li {
}

#intro-container ul li a {
display: block;
font-size:45px;
padding: 5px;
-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.5s ease;
-moz-transition: -moz-transform 0.5s ease;
transition: transform 0.5s ease;
}

#intro-container ul li a:hover {
-webkit-transform: scale(1.25);
-moz-transform: scale(1.25);
-o-transform: scale(1.25);
transform: scale(1.25);
-webkit-transform-origin: top right;
-moz-transform-origin: top right;
-o-transform-origin: top right;
transform-origin: top right;
}

Again, thank you in advance for any assistance anybody is willing to provide. This stuff is confusing for a newbie!

Richard Nash,
Los Angeles

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Hernan Chiosso

Permalink to comment# June 26, 2011

You are trying to scale the text? Perhaps you should just transition the font-size property.

Swagato Bhatta

# August 31, 2012

Hello,

I am trying to scale small icons using this method. It works for moz,firefox, chrome, safari.. however couldnt get it to work for ie7-8. I think there is no direct support for such. Do you have any javascript or similar that does similar job?

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Hugo Giraudel

# November 8, 2012

To be patched. It works perfectly fine in all major browsers now. :)

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Daniel Jones

# September 6, 2013

Really liked this one Chris. Looks great, cheers!

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Alisher

# November 21, 2013

nice tricks with image – thank you guys (beginner)

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Eli

# December 5, 2013

I was stuck with smooth scaling for 2 hours – and here I found this short and sweet solution. Thank you so much!

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jordi

# April 25, 2014

Hi there,
nice effect, I am using it as a main rollover effect in a website now, and used it before too but, can’t have my head around solving a problem. Meanwhile the transition runs, other elements in the view start doing some slightly perceptible but very annoying undesired movements too. Sometimes they are other images, other times text goes slightly bolder, and ALWAYS the image running the transition has an start and an end blurry moment, very short but very horrible. What am I missing here?

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Kenny

Permalink to comment# May 7, 2015

HI, I’m having this exact same problem of other elements on the page slightly moving and jittering or whatever. Also the blurry fade in issue with the zoom. Did you ever find a solution to fix this? Thanks.

dhaval

# June 25, 2014

“-webkit-transition: .6s ease-in-out fade ” this code is not working in google chrome.In mozilla its work fine.Please help me out.

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jordi

# June 25, 2014

Hey, it looks like it is the order of the parameters,
transition: [transition-property] [transition-duration] [transition-timing-function] [transition-delay];
try :
-webkit-transition: opacity .6s ease-in-out
And, as far as I am aware ‘fade’ is not a CSS property so no CSS transition can run on it, this is why I modified your rule from ‘fade’ to opacity.
and there are thousands of articles about CSS transitions ou there, but the following is one of the best :) :

transition

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Nimitz

# November 3, 2014

Reference link is dead.

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fabio

# February 4, 2015

Really nice! I have a question…does it work on IE8?

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Thad Bloom

Permalink to comment# March 31, 2015

Nope, neither transform or transition work in IE8. Check out http://caniuse.com/ — it is a great resource for looking this stuff up.

David

# April 3, 2015

Very nice… I’ve used the height mode (1, 1.1)…

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Laurel

# May 30, 2015

I’m using this technique to scale up icons in links on hover. It works but the icons pop back to normal size once the transition is complete instead of staying at the bigger size as long as you’re hovering. You can see it at my site here:

http://s542306109.onlinehome.us/webi1911/tokyo-pop/index.html#scene-8

This is the relevant html:

<section class="container" id="scene-8">
            <div class="center-text">
                <h1 class="title">plan your visit</h1>
                <section>
                    <a href="http://www.moma.org/" target="_blank">
                        <img src="images/logo-kokeshi-ny.png" alt="">
                        <h2>New York</h2>   
                        <p>Museum of Modern Art</p>
                    </a>
                </section>
                <section>
                    <a href="http://www.moca.org/" target="_blank">
                        <img src="images/logo-kokeshi-la.png" alt="">
                        <h2>Los Angeles</h2>    
                        <p>Museum of Contemporary Art</p>
                    </a>
                </section>
                <section>
                    <a href="http://new.artsmia.org/" target="_blank">
                        <img src="images/logo-kokeshi-mpls.png" alt="">
                        <h2>Minneapolis</h2>    
                        <p>Minneapolis Institute of Art</p>
                    </a>
                </section>
            </div>
        </section>

And here’s my CSS:

#scene-8 a {
    text-decoration: none;
    -webkit-transition: 1s ease;
           -moz-transition: 1s ease;
         -o-transition: 1s ease;
            transition: 1s ease;
}

#scene-8 a:hover {
    -webkit-transform: scale(1.1);
           -moz-transform: scale(1.1);
             -o-transform: scale(1.1);
            transform: scale(1.1);
}

Does anyone know if there’s a way to fix this so the icons stick at the larger transitioned size until you mouse out?

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Kenny

Permalink to comment# May 30, 2015

Hi, yeah it seems weird that it only changes for a limited time on hover. Try changing the link to display: block or inline-block, seems to fix it.
Laurel

Permalink to comment# May 30, 2015

Kenny,

Thanks so much, that fixed it!
Kawal

Permalink to comment# July 18, 2016

Your Website is dead Ma’am
Imran Sarwar

Permalink to comment# November 1, 2016

Can you Please give me fixed responsive bar with left side company name using CSS
ajay zara

Permalink to comment# October 5, 2017

how pixel increase in scale(1.1) property? Or scale default value?

Joakim

# September 27, 2015

Don´t get this to work in Safari though.

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Joakim

Permalink to comment# September 27, 2015

Ok, so i did. :)

Sue

# October 19, 2015

Ive never used proper coding before and im trying to build a website for custom shirt designs. I was wondering what the full code is and how to apply that to an image gallery.
Thanks for the help
much appreciated
Sue

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pyxal

# December 19, 2015

If the element you want to scale is an img with 100% width, then the code provided here can be problematic in Safari. The scale animation will run on page load as well as hover. To fix this, change “all” in the transition property to “transform”. Like so:

.grow { transition: all .2s ease-in-out; }
.grow:hover { transform: scale(1.1); }

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pyxal

Permalink to comment# December 19, 2015

Err, like so:

.grow { transition: transform .2s ease-in-out; }
.grow:hover { transform: scale(1.1); }

Merianos Nikos

# February 2, 2016

Awesome :) Thank you ;)

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Sudip

# February 6, 2016

Thanks , its work nicely.

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Sumit

# April 1, 2016

HTML:

CSS:-
.section{position:relative;}
.hover{width:342px; height:260px; position:absolute; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.75); left:0; top:0; opacity:0; transition:all 0.7s ease-in-out;}
.hover:hover{opacity:1; transition: scale(1.1);}

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Sumit

# April 1, 2016

HTML:

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U.Ramesh

# April 28, 2016

on-mouse hover image is bigger than on-mouse out we can same position. in this image paragraph their .only image is bigger than .we can not change the paragraph …..how do you…. using CSS properties…. ?
answer….. tell me…..

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hendrik

# May 27, 2016

Wow thanks man i was looking for something simple like this thanks ;)

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Aishwarya

# July 24, 2016

Hi ,
Here I have tried in some another way . This is also simple and nice.
HTML Code:

body{
           font-family:san-serif;
      }

td {
    border: 1px solid #dddddd;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;
    width:300px;
    margin-left:2%;
     }

function bigImg(x) {
    x.style.height = "180";
    x.style.width = "200";
}

function normalImg(x) {
    x.style.height = "150";
    x.style.width = "150";
}

In the image source you can give your image path.
Try this one. This is also nice.

Thanking you.

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zeinab

# September 12, 2016

thnx

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bahaaa

# September 19, 2016

thanks you

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Ashan

# September 23, 2016

Thanks. Perfect.

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Akshay

# October 4, 2016

I want to create my bar chart which should increase in height when mouse is hovered ,so thank’s for this tutorial it is very helpful for me.

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Sammy

# November 17, 2016

any suggestions on how to center the enlarged image within the page on hover?

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Andres Florez

# May 3, 2017

Really really really nice!!!

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Tanmoy Biswas

# May 25, 2017

reaaly thanks man. save lots of time and only just 2 line of codes.

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Lio

# August 31, 2017

Thanks!

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Jules

# December 24, 2017

Is there any Browser setting that can block/disable scale on hover and other transitions?

They may show great technical know-how- but as a UX, they are mostly annoying and distracting …. !

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kyw

# July 1, 2018

The text inside the button blurs during the transform. Anyone has fix for that?

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john zenith

# December 18, 2018

… And if for any reason the styles above are not taking effect on the targeted element, give it a display: block property.

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Siddharth

# May 9, 2019

Thank you for this

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sathish shaj

# June 23, 2019

it works fine but the problem was it gets blurry for .1s when i hover on it!

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Edosa Osagie

# July 23, 2019

Cool
But how do I blur the other elements out while one is scaled out

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