Translate

​Basic usage

​Translating an element

Use the translate-x-* and translate-y-* utilities to translate an element.

translate-y-6

-translate-y-6

translate-x-6

<img class="translate-y-6 ...">
<img class="-translate-y-6 ...">
<img class="translate-x-6 ...">

​Using negative values

To use a negative translate value, prefix the class name with a dash to convert it to a negative value.

<img class="-translate-y-6 ...">

​Removing transforms

To remove all of the transforms on an element at once, use the transform-none utility:

<div class="scale-75 translate-x-4 skew-y-3 md:transform-none">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

This can be useful when you want to remove transforms conditionally, such as on hover or at a particular breakpoint.

​Hardware acceleration

If your transition performs better when rendered by the GPU instead of the CPU, you can force hardware acceleration by adding the transform-gpu utility:

<div class="translate-y-6 transform-gpu">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Use transform-cpu to force things back to the CPU if you need to undo this conditionally.

​Applying conditionally

​Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:translate-y-12 to only apply the translate-y-12 utility on hover.

<div class="hover:translate-y-12">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

​Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:translate-y-12 to apply the translate-y-12 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<div class="md:translate-y-12">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

​Using custom values

​Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind provides fixed value translate utilities that match the default spacing scale, as well as 50% and 100% variations for translating relative to the element’s size. You can customize your spacing scale by editing theme.spacing or theme.extend.spacing in your tailwind.config.js file.

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      spacing: {
        '4.25': '17rem',
      }
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can customize just the translate scale by editing theme.translate or theme.extend.translate in your tailwind.config.js file.

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      translate: {
        '4.25': '17rem',
      }
    }
  }
}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

​Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off translate value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<div class="translate-y-[17rem]">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.