transform CSS style has no effect on an tag

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Disclaimer: There is clearly no good reason for doing this. If you'd like your <a> to be "moveable" stick it in a <div>.

But I want to know if it is documented anywhere (and if a reason is provided as to why) about this behavior.

@RabNawaz not really, more like duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4919963/css3-transform-not-working — Eli, Jan 30 '13 at 06:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '13 at 05:58

a is display: inline by default. Translation cannot be applied to inline elements:

Apparently this is an error too: http://jsfiddle.net/Calou/PTkCE/

According to the spec, transform should work on both inline and block elements.

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