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Flip Card

A 3D flip toggle — front face shows OFF, back face shows ON. Rotates around the Y axis on toggle. Showcases transform-style: preserve-3d.

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The code

<label class="tgl-40">
  <input class="tgl-40__input" type="checkbox" checked>
  <span class="tgl-40__card" aria-hidden="true">
    <span class="tgl-40__face tgl-40__on">ON</span>
    <span class="tgl-40__face tgl-40__off">OFF</span>
  </span>
  <span class="tgl-40__label">Auto-save</span>
</label>
.tgl-40 {
  font-family: "Inter", "Segoe UI", system-ui, sans-serif;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: #f0eeff;
  min-height: 100vh;
  width: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  gap: 24px;
  padding: 48px 20px;
  background: #14141e;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.tgl-40__input {
  position: absolute;
  width: 1px;
  height: 1px;
  padding: 0;
  margin: -1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
  white-space: nowrap;
  border: 0;
}

.tgl-40__card {
  position: relative;
  width: 56px;
  height: 30px;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transition: transform 0.45s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}

.tgl-40__face {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  border-radius: 6px;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.tgl-40__on {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2eb88a 0%, #1d9c70 100%);
  color: #fff;
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
}

.tgl-40__off {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4a4a52 0%, #2a2a30 100%);
  color: #b8b6d4;
  transform: rotateY(180deg);
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.08);
}

.tgl-40__input:not(:checked) ~ .tgl-40__card {
  transform: rotateY(180deg);
}

.tgl-40__input:focus-visible ~ .tgl-40__card {
  outline: 2px solid #7c6cff;
  outline-offset: 4px;
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .tgl-40__card {
    transition: none;
  }
}
/* No JavaScript — a preserve-3d card rotates rotateY(180°) between two backface-hidden ON/OFF faces. */
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Demo: Flip Card
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A 3D flip toggle — front face shows OFF, back face shows ON. Rotates around the Y axis on toggle. Showcases transform-style: preserve-3d.
## HTML
```html
<label class="tgl-40">
  <input class="tgl-40__input" type="checkbox" checked>
  <span class="tgl-40__card" aria-hidden="true">
    <span class="tgl-40__face tgl-40__on">ON</span>
    <span class="tgl-40__face tgl-40__off">OFF</span>
  </span>
  <span class="tgl-40__label">Auto-save</span>
</label>
```
## CSS
```css
.tgl-40 {
  font-family: "Inter", "Segoe UI", system-ui, sans-serif;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: #f0eeff;
  min-height: 100vh;
  width: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  gap: 24px;
  padding: 48px 20px;
  background: #14141e;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.tgl-40__input {
  position: absolute;
  width: 1px;
  height: 1px;
  padding: 0;
  margin: -1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
  white-space: nowrap;
  border: 0;
}

.tgl-40__card {
  position: relative;
  width: 56px;
  height: 30px;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transition: transform 0.45s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}

.tgl-40__face {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  border-radius: 6px;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.tgl-40__on {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2eb88a 0%, #1d9c70 100%);
  color: #fff;
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
}

.tgl-40__off {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4a4a52 0%, #2a2a30 100%);
  color: #b8b6d4;
  transform: rotateY(180deg);
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.08);
}

.tgl-40__input:not(:checked) ~ .tgl-40__card {
  transform: rotateY(180deg);
}

.tgl-40__input:focus-visible ~ .tgl-40__card {
  outline: 2px solid #7c6cff;
  outline-offset: 4px;
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .tgl-40__card {
    transition: none;
  }
}
```

## JavaScript
```js
/* No JavaScript — a preserve-3d card rotates rotateY(180°) between two backface-hidden ON/OFF faces. */
```

How this works

A 56×30 card with two absolutely-stacked faces — green ON and graphite OFF, both backface-visibility:hidden, the OFF face pre-rotated 180°. The card wrapper carries transform-style:preserve-3d and rotates rotateY(180deg) when unchecked, so exactly one face shows at any moment; perspective:400px on the label gives the turn its depth.

State text is baked into each face (ON/OFF), so mid-flip ambiguity lasts only the 0.45s turn and the landed state is always spelled out. This is the minimum-DOM flip-card: one input, one card, two faces.

Make it yours

  • Flip on rotateX instead for a flashcard feel.
  • Put icons on the faces (✓/✕ as SVGs) alongside the text.
  • Raise perspective to 800px+ for a subtler, flatter turn.
  • Grow it into a full info card — see demo 19 for faces with body copy.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • preserve-3d on the card and backface-visibility:hidden on BOTH faces are all required — miss one and faces ghost through each other.
  • Perspective must sit on an ancestor (the label here), not the rotating card.
  • Keep face content mirrored in importance — users see whichever lands, so neither face can be an afterthought.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
36+9+16+36+

Classic 3D flip stack; universal in modern browsers.

Techniques used in this demo

3D transforms (perspective + preserve-3d)

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