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Direct link to the article Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website
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Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website

Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is desirable. Designing and developing to be ready for multiple languages, whether it happens right at launch or is expected …

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Alaa Abd El-Rahim on Nov 23, 2021 (Updated on Dec 7, 2022)
Direct link to the article Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
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Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side

On a default left-to-right web page, “hanging” an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal scrollbar that scrolls as far as needed to make that whole element visible. But if …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 19, 2021
Direct link to the article Building Multi-Directional Layouts
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Building Multi-Directional Layouts

There are some new features in CSS that can assist us with building layouts for different directions and languages with ease. This article is about CSS logical properties and values (e.g. margin-inline-start).  These are a W3C working draft that …

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Ahmad El-Alfy on Jan 23, 2020 (Updated on Nov 24, 2021)
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Web Awards for Horizontal and Vertical Writings

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“Tate-Yoko Web Award” is an award given to those who are willing to challenge the web typography of the next generation by designing and utilizing new typesetting standards in the latest CSS codings.

Maybe the award site should win the …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 7, 2017
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CSS Writing Modes

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We shared a little trick not long ago about using the writing-mode property to set a title vertically. While a useful trick, it’s the tip of the iceberg on this property. Jen Simmons digs in and explains what’s really going …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 28, 2016
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Text Rotation

If what you are looking for is a way to set type vertically, you’re best bet is probably CSS writing-mode.

If you’re just trying to turn some text, you can rotate entire elements like this, which rotates it 90 …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 3, 2009 (Updated on Mar 22, 2019)

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