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Kumar test
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I am trying to increase height,width and return back to original height, width. But this is hapening with anchor around top left ,I need it to do around the centre. Is there any setting that I can use for that?

 

See the Pen apvCh by pannamraju (@pannamraju) on CodePen

var div=document.getElementById('divHome');
var width=100;
var height=100;
TweenMax.to(div, 1, { width: width * 1.5, height: height * 1.5 });
TweenMax.to(div, 1, { width: width, height: height }).delay(1);
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Hello Kumar, Welcome to the GreenSock Forums!

 

What about using scale instead of width and height:

 

Example:

See the Pen rFHDv by jonathan (@jonathan) on CodePen

var div=document.getElementById('divHome');
var width=100;
var height=100;

TweenMax.set(div,{transformOrigin: "50% 50% 0", scale:1});

TweenMax.to(div, 1, { scale: 1.5, force3D:true });
TweenMax.to(div, 1, { scale: 1, force3D:true }).delay(1);

and then using transformOrigin to make its origin point from the center using the set() method

 

does that work for you?

 

:)

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Hi,

 

The issue here is regarding the box-model specification, which uses the top left corner as the origin point and, unlike CSS transforms, it can't be changed. The problem with using scale is that the nested elements (images, text and other DOM objects) will be scaled too.

 

The workaround is to tween width/height and at the same time top/left to create the feeling of growing/contracting from the center, but you never get a smooth result.

 

An alternative could be to look into SVG, since it works in a similar fashion like flash there might be a property that allows you to do that. Unfortunately there's no easy way to do that and porting the Transform Around Center plugin from flash to JS apparently is not that easy.

 

Rodrigo.

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