How to use CSS 3D transformations
A guide for using CSS 3D transformations. Forthcoming CSS 3D transformations can be applied to your canvas
X angle:
Y angle:
Z angle:
(For best effect use Chrome or Safari)
Y angle:
Z angle:
(For best effect use Chrome or Safari)
WebKit (which is used by Google Chrome and Apple Safari) and Firefox
support CSS 3D transformations. If you're tasked with only supporting
these browsers then by using 3D transformations you can add 3D effects
to your charts like the one shown. The effect is specified by
adding a CSS property which is shown below. Because the effect changes
the position of the canvas coordinates in relation to the
page you must also tell RGraph to position the tooltips at the pageX
/pageY
coordinates which you do with the
tooltipsCoordsPage
option - as shown below.
<canvas id="cvs"
width="600"
height="250"
style="float: right;
-webkit-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
-moz-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
-o-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
-ms-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px gray">[No canvas support]</canvas>
<script> window.onload = (function () { var line = new RGraph.Line({ id: 'cvs', data: [4,6,8,4,1,3,2,5,4,6,8], options: { xaxisLabels: ['John', 'Geoff', 'Lou','Kevin','Barry','John','Alex','Nick','Dave','Hoolio','Pete'], hmargin: 10, tickmarksStyle: 'arrow', textAccessible: false } }).expand() }) </script>
Known bugs
- Mozilla Firefox does not work correctly with tooltips.
- Apple Safari sometimes has trouble with showing tooltips.
- Google Chrome sometimes has trouble with showing tooltips.
See also
- 3D transformations on the Surfin' Safari Blog
- 3D transformations on the HTML5 rocks website
- Another example of 3D transformations with video (or a Bar chart depending on your browser) (examples/bar-html5-3d-transformations.html)
- 3D transformations in ie10 (IEBlog)