@@ -16,23 +16,49 @@ const ORIGIN_CENTER = {
 
 // Consistent geometry stub: model the physical truth the real DOM would report.
 // A CSS width/height change grows the box from its top-left, so the rendered
-// center drifts by half the size delta; the manual offset the gesture applies
-// (read back from the element's studio vars) pulls it back. `elementCornerOverlayPoints`
+// center drifts by half the size delta; the element's own translate, which the gesture
+// writes in plain px, pulls it back. `elementCornerOverlayPoints`
 // returns the four corners of that drifted box; `overlayCornersCentroid` (kept
 // real) averages them so the anchor loop can measure the true center each frame.
+// An authored `translate: 25% 25%` follows the box size until the gesture writes px over it.
+const authored = vi.hoisted(() => ({ percent: 0 }));
+function inlineTranslate(element: HTMLElement): { x: number; y: number } | null {
+  const value = element.style.getPropertyValue("translate");
+  if (!value) return null;
+  const [x = 0, y = 0] = value.split(" ").map((v) => Number.parseFloat(v) || 0);
+  return { x, y };
+}
+function renderedTranslate(element: HTMLElement, width: number, height: number) {
+  return inlineTranslate(element) ?? { x: authored.percent * width, y: authored.percent * height };
+}
+
+vi.mock("./plainTranslate", async () => {
+  const actual = await vi.importActual<typeof import("./plainTranslate")>("./plainTranslate");
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    readTranslatePx: (element: HTMLElement) =>
+      renderedTranslate(
+        element,
+        element.offsetWidth || ORIGIN.width,
+        element.offsetHeight || ORIGIN.height,
+      ),
+  };
+});
+
 vi.mock("./domEditOverlayGeometry", async () => {
   const actual = await vi.importActual<typeof import("./domEditOverlayGeometry")>(
     "./domEditOverlayGeometry",
   );
-  const { readStudioBoxSize, readStudioPathOffset } = await import("./manualEditsDom");
+  const { readStudioBoxSize } = await import("./manualEditsDom");
   const physicalCenter = (element: HTMLElement) => {
     const size = readStudioBoxSize(element);
     const width = size.width > 0 ? size.width : ORIGIN.width;
     const height = size.height > 0 ? size.height : ORIGIN.height;
-    const offset = readStudioPathOffset(element);
+    const offset = renderedTranslate(element, width, height);
+    const start = { x: authored.percent * ORIGIN.width, y: authored.percent * ORIGIN.height };
     return {
-      x: ORIGIN_CENTER.x + (width - ORIGIN.width) / 2 + offset.x,
-      y: ORIGIN_CENTER.y + (height - ORIGIN.height) / 2 + offset.y,
+      x: ORIGIN_CENTER.x + (width - ORIGIN.width) / 2 + offset.x - start.x,
+      y: ORIGIN_CENTER.y + (height - ORIGIN.height) / 2 + offset.y - start.y,
       width,
       height,
     };
@@ -189,6 +215,7 @@ async function finishResize(handlers: ReturnType<typeof createDomEditOverlayGest
 
 afterEach(() => {
   document.body.innerHTML = "";
+  authored.percent = 0;
 });
 
 describe("anchored corner resize — the release commit feeds the center-pin offset", () => {
@@ -227,6 +254,19 @@ describe("anchored corner resize — the release commit feeds the center-pin off
     expect(offset.y).toBeCloseTo(-(size.height - ORIGIN.height) / 2, 0);
   });
 
+  it("keeps the centre on the first frame when the authored translate is a percent", async () => {
+    const { orientedOverlayRect } = await import("./domEditOverlayGeometry");
+    authored.percent = 0.25;
+    const { handlers, selection } = buildHarness();
+    handlers.startGesture("resize", evt(ORIGIN_CENTER.x + 100, ORIGIN_CENTER.y), {
+      resizeHandle: "se",
+    });
+    handlers.onPointerMove(evt(ORIGIN_CENTER.x + 150, ORIGIN_CENTER.y));
+    const rect = orientedOverlayRect(null as never, null as never, selection.element)!;
+    expect(rect.left + rect.width / 2).toBeCloseTo(ORIGIN_CENTER.x, 1);
+    expect(rect.top + rect.height / 2).toBeCloseTo(ORIGIN_CENTER.y, 1);
+  });
+
   it("does not log a paused save queue as an ordinary resize failure", async () => {
     const consoleError = vi.spyOn(console, "error").mockImplementation(() => {});
     const { handlers } = buildHarness(() => Promise.reject(new DomEditSaveQueueOpenError()));
 
@@ -70,20 +70,6 @@ export interface GestureState {
   // follows the cursor instead of overshooting by the live scale.
   contentScaleX: number;
   contentScaleY: number;
-  // Resize anchor pinning: with a live scale transform, growing the CSS box
-  // shifts the rendered box (scaling happens around the element center), so the
-  // un-dragged corner creeps during the draft. The move handler measures the
-  // gesture-start top-left drift each frame and counters it through the GSAP
-  // position channel; the pin accumulates so the correction converges.
-  // Present only on resize gestures.
-  resizeAnchor?: {
-    anchorX: number;
-    anchorY: number;
-    baseGsapX: number;
-    baseGsapY: number;
-    pinX: number;
-    pinY: number;
-  };
   manualEditDragToken?: string;
   snapContext?: SnapContext;
   lastSnappedDx?: number;
 
@@ -20,22 +20,23 @@ const PRESS = {
   currentTarget: { setPointerCapture() {} },
 };
 
-/** Presses a drag on the element and returns the gesture it started. */
-function pressDrag(element: HTMLElement): GestureState | null {
+/** Presses a drag or resize on the element and returns the gesture it started. */
+function pressGesture(element: HTMLElement, kind: "drag" | "resize" = "drag"): GestureState | null {
   const opts = pressOptions(element);
   expect(
-    createDomEditOverlayGestureHandlers(opts as never).startGesture("drag", PRESS as never),
+    createDomEditOverlayGestureHandlers(opts as never).startGesture(kind, PRESS as never),
   ).toBe(true);
   return opts.gestureRef.current;
 }
 
 function pressOptions(element: HTMLElement) {
   const ref = <T>(current: T) => ({ current });
-  const selection = { element, capabilities: { canApplyManualOffset: true } };
+  const capabilities = { canApplyManualOffset: true, canApplyManualSize: true };
+  const selection = { element, capabilities };
   return {
     selectionRef: ref(selection as unknown as DomEditSelection),
     overlayRectRef: ref({ left: 0, top: 0, width: 240, height: 160, editScaleX: 1, editScaleY: 1 }),
-    boxRef: ref(null),
+    boxRef: ref(document.createElement("div")),
     overlayRef: ref(null),
     iframeRef: ref(null),
     gestureRef: ref<GestureState | null>(null),
@@ -45,13 +46,14 @@ function pressOptions(element: HTMLElement) {
   };
 }
 
-describe("a drag press on a page that loads GSAP", () => {
+describe("a drag or resize press on a page that loads GSAP", () => {
   it.each([
-    ["GSAP animates nothing", false],
-    ["GSAP animates only its parent", true],
-  ])(
-    "%s: the press never asks GSAP about the element, so its translate stays CSS",
-    (_, parentTween) => {
+    ["drag", "GSAP animates nothing", false],
+    ["drag", "GSAP animates only its parent", true],
+    ["resize", "GSAP animates nothing", false],
+  ] as const)(
+    "%s, %s: the press never asks GSAP about the element, so its translate stays CSS",
+    (kind, _, parentTween) => {
       const getProperty = vi.fn(() => 0);
       const set = vi.fn();
       const parent = document.createElement("div");
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ describe("a drag press on a page that loads GSAP", () => {
       const tween = { targets: () => [parent], vars: { x: 100 }, duration: () => 2 };
       const timelines = { main: { getChildren: () => (parentTween ? [tween] : []) } };
       Object.assign(window, { gsap: { getProperty, set }, __timelines: timelines });
-      expect(pressDrag(element)?.pathOffsetMember?.plainTranslate).toBe(true);
+      expect(pressGesture(element, kind)?.pathOffsetMember?.plainTranslate).toBe(true);
       expect(getProperty).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(set).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(element.style.getPropertyValue("translate")).toBe("40px 30px");
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ describe("a drag press on a centred element without GSAP", () => {
       "position: absolute; left: 50%; top: 50%; width: 240px; height: 160px; translate: -50% -50%";
     document.body.append(element);
     const style = element.getAttribute("style");
-    expect(pressDrag(element)?.pathOffsetMember?.initialOffset).toEqual({ x: -120, y: -80 });
+    expect(pressGesture(element)?.pathOffsetMember?.initialOffset).toEqual({ x: -120, y: -80 });
     expect(element.getAttribute("style")).toBe(style);
   });
 });
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
  * Gesture-begin functions: startGroupDrag and startGesture.
  * These are pure "start a new gesture" operations — no draft rect updates.
  */
-import { readElementGsapNumber } from "../../utils/elementGsap";
 import { type DomEditSelection } from "./domEditing";
 import {
+  applyManualOffsetDragDraft,
   createManualOffsetDragMember,
   readGsapRotation,
   restoreManualOffsetDragMembers,
@@ -171,18 +171,6 @@ export function startGesture(
     Number.isFinite(rawContentScaleX) && rawContentScaleX > 0 ? rawContentScaleX : 1;
   const contentScaleY =
     Number.isFinite(rawContentScaleY) && rawContentScaleY > 0 ? rawContentScaleY : 1;
-  let resizeAnchor: GestureState["resizeAnchor"];
-  if (kind === "resize") {
-    const startBcr = sel.element.getBoundingClientRect();
-    resizeAnchor = {
-      anchorX: startBcr.x,
-      anchorY: startBcr.y,
-      baseGsapX: readElementGsapNumber(sel.element, "x") ?? 0,
-      baseGsapY: readElementGsapNumber(sel.element, "y") ?? 0,
-      pinX: 0,
-      pinY: 0,
-    };
-  }
   let initialPathOffset = captureStudioPathOffset(sel.element);
   let manualEditDragToken: string | undefined;
   let pathOffsetMember: ManualOffsetDragMember | undefined;
@@ -205,23 +193,24 @@ export function startGesture(
     initialPathOffset = result.member.initialPathOffset;
     manualEditDragToken = result.member.gestureToken;
   } else {
-    // Center-anchored corner resize (CapCut model): the element scales about its
-    // CENTER, which stays planted. All four corners behave identically, so EVERY
-    // corner needs the manual-offset member that translates the element to re-pin
-    // its center per frame (the memberless else-branch is only a defensive fallback
-    // if member creation fails, e.g. the element can't take a manual offset).
+    // Center-anchored corner resize (CapCut model): the element scales about its planted CENTER,
+    // so every corner needs the member that re-pins the center per frame (the memberless
+    // branch is only a fallback for an element that can't take a manual offset).
     const needsAnchorOffset = kind === "resize" && sel.capabilities.canApplyManualOffset;
     if (needsAnchorOffset) {
       const result = createManualOffsetDragMember({
         key: selectionCacheKey(sel),
         selection: sel,
         element: sel.element,
         rect,
+        gesture: "resize",
       });
       if (result.ok) {
         pathOffsetMember = result.member;
         initialPathOffset = result.member.initialPathOffset;
         manualEditDragToken = result.member.gestureToken;
+        // Hold a % translate as the same px now, so a growing box can't drag it along mid-frame.
+        if (result.member.plainTranslate) applyManualOffsetDragDraft(result.member, 0, 0);
       } else {
         manualEditDragToken = beginStudioManualEditGesture(sel.element);
       }
@@ -285,7 +274,6 @@ export function startGesture(
     editScaleY: rect.editScaleY,
     contentScaleX,
     contentScaleY,
-    resizeAnchor,
     manualEditDragToken,
     snapContext,
     resizeHandle: kind === "resize" ? (options?.resizeHandle ?? "se") : undefined,
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export function buildClearPathOffsetPatches(element: HTMLElement): PatchOperatio
 
 /* ── Box size patches ────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 
-const BOX_SIZE_STYLE_PROPS = [
+export const BOX_SIZE_STYLE_PROPS = [
   "width",
   "height",
   "min-width",
 
@@ -652,3 +652,44 @@ describe("a move of an element GSAP does not position", () => {
     expect(member().plainTranslate).toBe(false);
   });
 });
+
+describe("a resize's anchor member", () => {
+  function anchorMember(tweenVars?: Record<string, number>) {
+    const window = new Window();
+    const element = window.document.createElement("div");
+    element.id = "box";
+    window.document.body.append(element);
+    const tweens = tweenVars ? [{ vars: tweenVars, targets: () => [element] }] : [];
+    Object.assign(window, { __timelines: { main: { getChildren: () => tweens } } });
+    element.getBoundingClientRect = () => {
+      const [x = 0, y = 0] = element.style
+        .getPropertyValue("translate")
+        .split(" ")
+        .map((v) => Number.parseFloat(v));
+      return new window.DOMRect(10 + (x || 0), 20 + (y || 0), 100, 50);
+    };
+    const result = createManualOffsetDragMember({
+      key: "box",
+      selection: { element } as never,
+      element,
+      rect: { left: 10, top: 20, width: 100, height: 50, editScaleX: 1, editScaleY: 1 },
+      gesture: "resize",
+    });
+    if (!result.ok) throw new Error("member");
+    return result.member;
+  }
+
+  it("keeps the centre with the element's own plain translate when GSAP does not own the box", () => {
+    const member = anchorMember();
+    expect(member.plainTranslate).toBe(true);
+    applyManualOffsetDragDraft(member, -10.25, 3.5);
+    expect(member.element.style.getPropertyValue("translate")).toBe("-10.25px 3.5px");
+  });
+
+  it.each(["width", "maxWidth", "minHeight", "flexBasis", "scale", "scaleX"])(
+    "leaves a box whose %s GSAP tweens, which the CSS box writer also sets, to the GSAP writer",
+    (channel) => {
+      expect(anchorMember({ [channel]: 300 }).plainTranslate).toBe(false);
+    },
+  );
+});
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
   type StudioPathOffsetSnapshot,
 } from "./manualEdits";
 import { computeDraggedGsapPosition } from "../../hooks/draggedGsapPosition";
-import { gsapWritesPosition } from "../../hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes";
+import { gsapWritesBox, gsapWritesPosition } from "../../hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes";
 import { readTranslatePx, UNREADABLE_TRANSLATE, writeTranslatePx } from "./plainTranslate";
 
 interface OffsetDragGsap {
@@ -337,11 +337,11 @@ export function createManualOffsetDragMember(input: {
   selection: DomEditSelection;
   element: HTMLElement;
   rect: ManualOffsetDragRect;
-  gesture?: "drag" | "nudge"; // a resize's anchor member keeps the legacy offset channel
+  gesture?: "drag" | "nudge" | "resize"; // resize: the anchor that keeps its centre planted
 }): ManualOffsetDragMemberResult {
-  const plainTranslate = !!input.gesture && !gsapWritesPosition(input.element);
-  // Base the drag on the offset ACTUALLY applied, never a dormant var (readAppliedStudioPathOffset),
-  // so a stale offset can't fling the element off-screen.
+  const gsapOwns = input.gesture === "resize" ? gsapWritesBox : gsapWritesPosition;
+  const plainTranslate = !!input.gesture && !gsapOwns(input.element);
+  // The APPLIED offset, never a dormant var, so a stale one can't fling the element off-screen.
   const initialOffset = plainTranslate
     ? readTranslatePx(input.element)
     : readAppliedStudioPathOffset(input.element);
 
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import { buildArcPath, type ArcPathConfig } from "@hyperframes/core/gsap-parser-acorn";
 import { parsePercentageKeyframes, toAbsoluteTime } from "./gsapShared";
 import { roundTo3 } from "../utils/rounding";
+import { BOX_SIZE_STYLE_PROPS } from "../components/editor/manualEditsDomPatches";
 
 /**
  * A GSAP tween's `vars` object — intentionally open: it mixes channel values
@@ -446,6 +447,19 @@ export function gsapWritesPosition(el: Element): boolean {
   return !!cache?.renderTransform || gsapWritesChannels(el, MOVE_CHANNELS);
 }
 
+const BOX_CHANNELS = [
+  ...BOX_SIZE_STYLE_PROPS.map((prop) =>
+    prop.replace(/-([a-z])/g, (_, c: string) => c.toUpperCase()),
+  ),
+  "scaleX",
+  "scaleY",
+];
+
+/** GSAP owns this element's box: its position, or any property the CSS box writer sets. Else a resize writes CSS. */
+export function gsapWritesBox(el: Element): boolean {
+  return gsapWritesPosition(el) || gsapWritesChannels(el, BOX_CHANNELS);
+}
+
 /** `hasNonHoldTweenForElement` for an element in hand, read from its own window's timelines. */
 export function elementHasNonHoldTween(el: Element, channels?: string[]): boolean {
   const win = el.ownerDocument.defaultView as {
 
@@ -176,6 +176,28 @@ describe("useDomGeometryCommit, from the package entry", () => {
     unmount();
   });
 
+  it("saves a GSAP-free resize as its inline size, with no GSAP script and no animation read", async () => {
+    const calls = stubPatchServer();
+    const { element, recordEdit, hook, unmount } = renderHost();
+
+    await expect(
+      hook().commitBoxSize(makeSelection("card", element), { width: 300, height: 90 }),
+    ).resolves.toEqual({ ok: true });
+
+    expect(element.style.getPropertyValue("width")).toBe("300px");
+    expect(calls.patches).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        operations: expect.arrayContaining([
+          { type: "inline-style", property: "width", value: "300px" },
+          { type: "inline-style", property: "height", value: "90px" },
+        ]),
+      }),
+    ]);
+    expect(calls.urls.filter((url) => url.includes("gsap"))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(recordEdit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    unmount();
+  });
+
   it("puts a GSAP-free element's translate back when its move cannot be saved", async () => {
     stubPatchServer(500);
     const { element, hook, unmount } = renderHost();
@@ -216,6 +238,8 @@ describe("useDomGeometryCommit, from the package entry", () => {
     const showToast = vi.fn();
     const restore = vi.fn();
     const { element, recordEdit, hook, unmount } = renderHost({ showToast });
+    // GSAP renders the card's transform, so its resize reads animations first.
+    Object.assign(element, { _gsap: { renderTransform: () => undefined } });
 
     await expect(
       hook().commitBoxSize(