Visualize the effect of CSS transforms

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Visualize the effect of CSS transforms

CSS transforms can sometimes be hard to wrap your head around, especially when chaining multiple transformations.

Firefox helps with a cool visualization tool that allows you to see how and where the element was before being transformed, and how it is now.

Being able to compare the 2 states at the same time makes it easier to debug your transform CSS properties.

Animation showing how the CSS transform highlighter appears on the page when hovering over a transform CSS property in the Rules panel.

Learn more about it here.

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