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Backface Visibility with 3D Transforms

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Hello All,

Hiding backface visibility works when used with a transform i.e. rotateY.

The problem occurs when you try to add a click initiated transition i.e. flipping a card. The backface visibility property fails to hide the reverse side of the image. Any ideas why? How to make this work? (Just in case it isn't obvious, this is possible in webkit). Code below;

<div id="gameBoard">
        <div class="wrapper">
            <div class="card">
                <div class="face front"></div>
                <div class="face back"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
</div>

.wrapper {
    width: 94px;
    height: 132px;
    position: absolute;
    margin-left: 50px;
}

.card, .card .face {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    transform: perspective(500px) rotateY(0deg);
    transform-origin: 50% 50%;
    transition: all 1s cubic-bezier(0.650, -0.600, 0.240, 1.650);
}

.face.front {
    background-image: url('../images/Card-logo-border-alt.svg');
}

.face.back {
    background-image: url('../images/Card-logo-border.svg');
    backface-visibility: hidden;   
}

$(document).ready(function() {
        $('.card').click(function () {
            $(this).css({ "transform": "perspective(500px) rotateY(-180deg)"});
        });
    });

Monday, July 09, 2012 7:24 PM

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Hi,

This property is working fine. But it seems the logic is incorrect. At the beginning, you probably want to show the front image, but not the back image. So please configure the back image to rotate for -180 degrees. It is also needed to set both of their backface-visibility to hidden, so they won’t be displayed when transformed to the background:

.face.front {
       background-image: url(‘your front image’);
backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.face.back {
       transform: perspective(500px) rotateY(-180deg);
       background-image: url(‘your back image’);
backface-visibility: hidden;
}

When you want to rotate the card, do not rotate the whole card. Instead, please switch the front and back images’ rotateY:

        var front = document.getElementsByClassName("face")[0];
        front.style.transform = "perspective(500px) rotateY(-180deg)";
        var back = document.getElementsByClassName("face")[1];
        back.style.transform = "perspective(500px) rotateY(0deg)";

Best Regards,

Ming Xu.
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- Marked as answer by B-Mac18 Tuesday, July 10, 2012 12:59 PM
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:44 AM

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