translateY()

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

ThetranslateY()CSS function repositions an element vertically on the 2D plane. Its resultis a<transform-function> data type.

Try it

transform: translateY(0);

transform: translateY(42px);

transform: translateY(-2.1rem);

transform: translateY(3ch);

<section>  <img          src="/shared-assets/images/examples/firefox-logo.svg"    width="200" />  <img          src="/shared-assets/images/examples/firefox-logo.svg"    width="200" /></section>

#static-element {  opacity: 0.4;  position: absolute;}#example-element {  position: absolute;}

Note:translateY(ty) is equivalent totranslate(0, ty) ortranslate3d(0, ty, 0).

Syntax

css

/* <length-percentage> values */transform: translateY(200px);transform: translateY(50%);

Values

<length-percentage>: The value is a<length> or<percentage> representing the ordinate (vertical, y-coordinate) of thetranslating vector [0, ty]. InCartesian coordinate system it represents shift along y-axis. A percentage value refers to the height of the reference box defined by thetransform-box property.

Cartesian coordinates onℝ^2	Homogeneous coordinates onℝℙ^2	Cartesian coordinates onℝ^3	Homogeneous coordinates onℝℙ^3
A translation is not a linear transformation in ℝ^2 and can't be represented using a Cartesian-coordinate matrix.	$(\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{matrix}) \left( \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right)$	$(\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{matrix}) \left( \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right)$	$(\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{matrix}) \left( \begin{array}{cccc} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & t \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right)$
	`[1 0 0 1 0 t]`

Formal syntax

<translateY()> =
translateY(<length-percentage>)

<length-percentage> =
<length>|
<percentage>

Examples

HTML

html

<div>Static</div><div>Moved</div><div>Static</div>

CSS

css

div {  width: 60px;  height: 60px;  background-color: skyblue;}.moved {  transform: translateY(10px);  background-color: pink;}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Transforms Module Level 1 # funcdef-transform-translatey

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