14925 2011-11-25 04:04:14 +0000 Add a way to rotate background images with CSS 2011-11-25 15:46:20 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS General unspecified Other other NEW http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null cmarrin dino eoconnor mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking smfr dave.null oldest_to_newest 60461 0 contributor 2011-11-25 04:04:14 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: I would love to see a way to rotate background images with CSS3. As an artist this would save large amounts of time. When creating a high-end seamless tiling background, it takes skill and time. If you want to have it on an angle, it's very difficult and can take many hours. This is even more complex if the background needs to be geometric. I have worked on backgrounds like that which took days to complete. By giving us a simple property in CSS to do this, we could create tiling backgrounds and then let the browser rotate those images. Not only would it save heaps of time producing these images, but it would allow us to reuse background images that otherwise would seem mundane and repetitive. Scan lines are a perfect trendy example. You could quickly create tiling lines that are vertical or horizontal and then rotate them various degrees and create different looks quickly on multiple sites. I would opt for something very simple, such as: background-rotate: 25deg; background-rotate: -25deg; background: url(images/bg.png) center center repeat 25deg; this would follow the current syntax we are used to. thanks and hope I this can be implemented before HTML5 and CSS3 are finalized. Darren D'Agostino, Off the Rack Posted from: 24.44.234.196 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22 60482 1 mike 2011-11-25 10:13:55 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > I would love to see a way to rotate background images with CSS3. As an artist > this would save large amounts of time. > > Darren D'Agostino, Off the Rack CSS3 Transforms are what you want 60501 2 smfr 2011-11-25 15:46:20 +0000 No, CSS Transforms don't allow you to transform the background independently.