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title: CSS3DRenderer category: Addons layout: docs

CSS3DRenderer

This renderer can be used to apply hierarchical 3D transformations to DOM elements via the CSS3 transform property. CSS3DRenderer is particularly interesting if you want to apply 3D effects to a website without canvas based rendering. It can also be used in order to combine DOM elements with WebGLcontent.

There are, however, some important limitations:

• It's not possible to use the material system of three.js.
• It's also not possible to use geometries.
• The renderer only supports 100% browser and display zoom.

So CSS3DRenderer is just focused on ordinary DOM elements. These elements are wrapped into special 3D objects (CSS3DObject or CSS3DSprite) and then added to the scene graph.

Import

CSS3DRenderer is an addon, and must be imported explicitly, see Installation#Addons.

import { CSS3DRenderer } from 'three/addons/renderers/CSS3DRenderer.js';

Constructor

new CSS3DRenderer( parameters : CSS3DRenderer~Parameters )

Constructs a new CSS3D renderer.

parameters | The parameters.
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Properties

.domElement : HTMLElement

The DOM where the renderer appends its child-elements.

Methods

.getSize() : Object

Returns an object containing the width and height of the renderer.

Returns: The size of the renderer.

.render( scene : Object3D, camera : Camera )

Renders the given scene using the given camera.

scene | A scene or any other type of 3D object.
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camera | The camera.

.setSize( width : number, height : number )

Resizes the renderer to the given width and height.

width | The width of the renderer.
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height | The height of the renderer.

Type Definitions

.Parameters

Constructor parameters of CSS3DRenderer.

element
HTMLElement | A DOM element where the renderer appends its child-elements. If not passed in here, a new div element will be created.
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Source

examples/jsm/renderers/CSS3DRenderer.js