Rotate text -90deg and vertically align with div

Question

I'm attempting to vertically align text that has been rotated by -90deg and not having much luck. Code below

HTML:

<section class="page_block" style="background: <?php echo $background; ?>;">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-1">
            <div id="header">
                <h1 class="verticaltext">
                    <?php echo $page->post_title; ?>
                </h1>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-md-11">
            <p><?php echo $page->post_content; ?></p>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>

CSS:

.page_block {
    margin:0px;
    padding:10px;
}
#header { 
    position: relative; 
}
.verticaltext {
    transform: rotate(-90deg);
    transform-origin: right, top;
    -ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -ms-transform-origin:right, top;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -webkit-transform-origin:right, top;

    position: absolute; bottom: 0%; left: 0%;
    color: #ed217c;
}

The result is like. This is a Wordpress theme, with Twitter Bootstrap implemented as well as a full width slider. I have confirmed that both Bootstrap and the Slider do not contain conflicting CSS.

Solution 1

In the end, I've had to give up on the CSS front and generate the titles as transparent PNGs using GD. Not ideal, but gives me a lot more flexibility in terms of positioning. If anyone is interested in the rotation script I'm using, it's below

define("DEFAULT_FONT", "fonts/BebasNeue-webfont.ttf");
define("DEFAULT_COLOR", "ed217c");
define("DEFAULT_SIZE", 24);
define("DEFAULT_ANGLE", 0);
define("DEFAULT_PADDING", 10);
define("DEFAULT_SPACING", 0);

$text = $_GET['text'];
if(isset($_GET['transform'])):
    switch ($_GET['transform']){
        case 'uc':
            $text = strtoupper($_GET['text']);
            break;

        case 'lc':
            $text = strtolower($_GET['text']);
            break;

        case 'ucf':
            $text = ucfirst($_GET['text']);
            break;

        case 'ucw':
            $text = ucwords($_GET['text']);
            break;
    }
endif;

$font = $_GET['font'] ? $_GET['font'] : DEFAULT_FONT;
$color = (strlen($_GET['color']) == 6 && ctype_alnum($_GET['color']))  ? "0x" . $_GET['color'] : "0x" . DEFAULT_COLOR;
$size = (is_numeric($_GET['size'])) ? $_GET['size'] : DEFAULT_SIZE;
$angle = (is_numeric($_GET['angle'])) ? $_GET['angle'] : DEFAULT_ANGLE;
$padding = (is_numeric($_GET['padding'])) ? $_GET['padding']*4 : DEFAULT_PADDING*4;
$spacing = (is_numeric($_GET['spacing'])) ? $_GET['spacing'] : DEFAULT_SPACING;
$text_dimensions = calculateTextDimensions($text, $font, $size, $angle, $spacing);
$image_width = $text_dimensions["width"] + $padding;
$image_height = $text_dimensions["height"] + $padding;

$new_image = imagecreatetruecolor($image_width, $image_height);
ImageFill($new_image, 0, 0, IMG_COLOR_TRANSPARENT);
imagesavealpha($new_image, true);
imagealphablending($new_image, false);
imagettftextSp($new_image, $size, $angle, $text_dimensions["left"] + ($image_width / 2) - ($text_dimensions["width"] / 2), $text_dimensions["top"] + ($image_height / 2) - ($text_dimensions["height"] / 2), $color, $font, $text, $spacing);
imagepng($new_image);
imagerotate($new_image, 90, 0);
imagedestroy($new_image);

function imagettftextSp($image, $size, $angle, $x, $y, $color, $font, $text, $spacing = 0)
{
    if ($spacing == 0)
    {
        imagettftext($image, $size, $angle, $x, $y, $color, $font, $text);
    }
    else
    {
        $temp_x = $x;
        for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($text); $i++)
        {
            $bbox = imagettftext($image, $size, $angle, $temp_x, $y, $color, $font, $text[$i]);
            $temp_x += $spacing + ($bbox[2] - $bbox[0]);
        }
    }
}

function calculateTextDimensions($text, $font, $size, $angle, $spacing) {
    $rect = imagettfbbox($size, $angle, $font, $text);
    $minX = min(array($rect[0],$rect[2],$rect[4],$rect[6]));
    $maxX = max(array($rect[0],$rect[2],$rect[4],$rect[6]));
    $minY = min(array($rect[1],$rect[3],$rect[5],$rect[7]));
    $maxY = max(array($rect[1],$rect[3],$rect[5],$rect[7]));
    $spacing = ($spacing*(strlen($text)+2));
    return array(
        "left"   => abs($minX) - 1,
        "top"    => abs($minY) - 1,
        "width"  => ($maxX - $minX)+$spacing,
        "height" => $maxY - $minY,
        "box"    => $rect
    );
}
    header("content-type: image/png");

Modified from Jason Lau's awesome script, which can be found here.

Solution 2

Not sure why you had bottom: 0%; left: 0%; in the first place, but removing them results in your desired goal I believe.

Here's an example.

CSS:

.page_block {
    margin:0px;
    padding:10px;
}
#header { 
    position: relative; 
}
.verticaltext {
    transform: rotate(-90deg);
    transform-origin: right, top;
    -ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -ms-transform-origin:right, top;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -webkit-transform-origin:right, top;
    position: absolute; 
    color: #ed217c;
}

Solution 3

HTML

<div class="container">
    <div class="vertical">Vertical Text Here</div>
    <div>
        <div>Horizontal Text Here</div>
        ...
        <div>Horizontal Text Here</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.container{
     display: grid;
     grid-auto-rows: minmax(min-content, max-content);
     grid-template-columns: auto 1fr;
}

.vertical{
     transform: rotate(180deg);
     writing-mode: vertical-lr;
     text-align: center;
}

Explanation

To achieve -90 deg text

writing-mode: vertical-lr writes text vertically but is basically equivalent to rotating the text 90 degrees. With transform: rotate(180deg) we end up with the -90 degrees look we want.

To vertically align rotated text

I used grid and grid-template-columns to put the rotated text beside the div. This way the div can hold multiple lines or other things. Use text-align to align the rotated text however you want. In this case it's center.

note: You may not need: grid-auto-rows: minmax(min-content, max-content). If the rotated text's height does weird things, this can used to force wrap the rotated text to fit its content.

Solution 4

I've managed to achieve the same effect as Deruck but without changing the structure of the html.

JSFiddle

body{
    margin:0;
}
p{
    margin: 0;
}
.page_block {
    margin:0px;
}
.row{
    position: relative;
}
.col-md-11{
    margin-left:50px;
}
.verticaltext {
    transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);

    bottom: 45%;
    position: absolute;
    color: #ed217c;
}

Solution 5

There is a CSS property that rotates text and orients the containing blocks: writing-mode

Here is a JS Fiddle example.

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