Put Text on its Side in CSS (rotated)

PublishedNov 11th, 2020

While messing around with a hobby site I went to tilt text on its side and realized I didn’t really have a method for doing this.

After google’ing and playing a little I found this method that I like.

It only requires two CSS properties and plays nicely with surrounding elements.

The trick is using

transform: scale(-1);
writing-mode: vertical-lr;

Here’s a demo of it in action:

See the Pen <a href="https://codepen.io/James0r/pen/PozxLaP"> Text on its side demo</a> by James (<a href="https://codepen.io/James0r">@James0r</a>) on <a href="https://codepen.io">CodePen</a>.

Optionally if you want actual vertical text with the letters remaining upright, you can drop the transform: scale(-1); property and add text-orientation: upright;.

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