3D Card Effect - HTML/CSS
Tags: html, css, webdev, tutorial
Published: 2023-02-15 12:50:24

Hello Everyone today I will show you how to create a 3d card effect with HTML and CSS. I followed Kevin Powell's Youtube tutorial and did some minor changes, I recommend watching the tutorial for a better understanding, Link is attached below.

Credit - Kevin Powell
Youtube - https://youtu.be/Z-3tPXf9a7M

Let's get started...

# Working Demo - 
{% codepen https://codepen.io/shubhamtiwari909/pen/xxabxJR %}

# HTML - 
```html
<div class="effect">
  This is a 3d Card
</div>
```

* Well it's just a simple Div with some text.

# CSS - 
* For CSS I will only explain the main part, the rest of the code you can see in the code pen example above.

```css
.effect{
  position:relative;
  color:white;
  padding:2rem;
  background-image:linear-gradient(to right,crimson,purple,rebeccapurple);
  width:200px;
  height:100px;
  border-radius:20px;
  font-size:2rem;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transform:perspective(5000px) rotateX(-10deg) rotateY(45deg)
}
```
* transform-style property will make the element preserve its 3d state.
* transform perspective will create an effect that makes it look away from the user in 3d space (probably z-axis).

```css
.effect::before,
.effect::after{
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  transform:translateZ(-60px);
}
```
* we will be using before and after pseudo selectors to create the background space for the card.

```css
.effect::before{
  background-image:linear-gradient(to right,white,lightgrey,grey);
  display:block;
  width:350px;
  height:200px;
  border-radius:inherit;
  transform:translateZ(-60px);
}
```
* before pseudo selector will be used to create the below space for the card with a bigger size than the card itself, so that card will look like it is in front of another element like a 3d effect.
* translateZ property will push the before element 60px behind the card along the z-axis.

```css
.effect::after{
  top:50%;
  left:50%;
  transform:translateX(-40%) translateY(-45%) translateZ(-59px);
  filter:blur(10px);
  background-color:rgb(0,0,0,0.7);
  display:block;
  width:250px;
  height:170px;
  border-radius:inherit;
}
```
* after pseudo selector will be used to create the shadow effect for the card. Filter property will blur the shadow.
* The size of this element is a little bit larger than the card.
* translateZ here is 1px smaller than the before pseudo-element so this shadow will lie between the background element and Card element.

### I hope you will get the logic and if not, you can follow the kevin powell tutorial. The link is attached at the top of this blog

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