CSS: Wrong position of "transform: scale();" container children

Question

I have a container element with long content which is scaled:

.container {   transform: scale(0.9); } 

inside this container I have a child div which is used to be a popup. It's positioned absolute with top 50%

.popup {   width: 300px;   height: 200px;   position: absolute;   left: 50%;   top: 50%; } 

but unfortunately when container is scaled this 50% is not working. I need to use ~240% if it appears on the bottom of a page.

Do you now some specifics on applying positioning on children of scaled elements?

DEMO: http://labs.voronianski.com/test/scaled-positioning.html

Answer 1

Add to .wrap:

.wrap {   ...   position: relative;   /*some prefix*/-transform-origin: 0 0; } 

You'll need to reposition the .popup (now the reference frame is the .wrap, instead of the html element), but in Chrome the scale toggle works fine after this change.

See: When using CSS Scale in Firefox, element keeps original position