Sometimes you might need to scale an item, especially when designing a page, so it looks smaller, or bigger.

You can use the CSS zoom property to scale any HTML element.

Use a value < 1 to make an element smaller. For example, half the size with 0.5:

div {
  zoom: 0.5;
}

or use a value > 1 to make the element bigger, for example to scale it 2×:

div {
  zoom: 2;
}

Note: this does not work in Firefox. You can use -moz-transform: scale(NUMBER); instead (and if you go that route, you can use transform: scale(NUMBER); on all browsers, too).

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	How to center an element with CSS
2:	CSS Border inside the element
3:	What are good CSS Breakpoint values for Responsive Design?
4:	How to debug CSS by bisecting
5:	How to disable text selection using CSS
6:	How to put an item at the bottom of its container using CSS
7:	CSS, how to select elements that do not have a class
8:	How to stick an element on the bottom of the page with flexbox
9:	How to apply padding to multiple lines in CSS
10:	Making a table responsive using CSS
11:	CSS url()
12:	▶︎ How to make an element smaller or bigger with CSS
13:	Customizing visited links
14:	Fix extra space after inline element
15:	How to create a sidebar that’s sticky but also scrolls
16:	How to embed YouTube videos using the correct aspect ratio
17:	Responsive pre tags in CSS
18:	Responsive YouTube Video Embeds
19:	How to remove all CSS from a page at once
20:	How I added Dark Mode to my website
21:	How to add a simple dark mode