It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
"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 award.… Read article
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 on.
There is a certain way elements flow on websites. Without doing anything special, block elements push downward from top to bottom. Inline elements go from left to right. In writing-mode, that would be expressed by (the default) horizontal-tb (horizontal … Read article
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 degrees counterclockwise:
.rotate {
transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Legacy vendor prefixes that you probably don't need... */
/* Safari */
-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Firefox */
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* IE */
-ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Opera */
-o-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Internet Explorer */