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Does anyone know how to successfully implement vertical text in IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10 with CSS only? (by vertical text, I'm referring to text being rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees)
This is what I have implemented today, which I think should be correct:
.counterclockwise-text {
/* Chrome/Safari */
-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* Firefox */
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-moz-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* IE9 */
-ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-ms-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* This should work for IE10 and other modern browsers that do not need vendor prefixes */
transform: rotate(-90deg);
transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* IE8 or less - using the "\9" CSS hack so that other browsers will ignore these lines */
zoom: 1\9;
writing-mode: tb-rl\9;
filter: flipv fliph;
}
However, IE10 is not ignoring the "\9" CSS hack -- it will pick up those values and rotate the text another 90 degrees. A useful solution would be a way to do vertical text in IE8 and below that will not be picked up by IE10. I really want to avoid having an IE8-only stylesheet, or having a media query to detect IE10. I'm just looking for a way to modify the CSS above to have vertical text in all browsers. Thank you!
EDIT:
For what it is worth, I also tried the code below that uses a filter to rotate the text. This may work for most cases, but in my instance a lot of the text is cut off by the restricted (non-rotated?) constrains of the wrapping element.
.counterclockwise-text {
/* Chrome/Safari */
-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* Firefox */
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-moz-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* IE9 */
-ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-ms-transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* IE10 and other modern browsers that do not need vendor prefixes */
transform: rotate(-90deg);
transform-origin: 50% 50%;
/* IE8 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);
/* IE7 or less */
*zoom: 1;
*writing-mode: tb-rl;
*filter: flipv fliph;
}
I still have not found a way to do this with pure CSS where IE10 and IE8 are happy.
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But thankfully, modern CSS has addressed the issue and supports vertical text with ease. The easiest way to create a block of vertical text in CSS is to set a vertical writing mode on the element. That covers the basics, but let us walk through some examples in this guide – Read on!
A very good browser would function like Firefox when it reads css code and IE 10 does not do that. In fact, IE has alwayshad problems with css, that is why conditional comments were necessary in the fist place. Getting rid of conditional comments now just makes us have to write more code and it makes a lot of people just waste a lot of time.
Yep, CSS vertical text does work, but some characters are annoyingly rotated. To “fix” that problem, we can use the text-orientation property: mixed – The default setting for text orientation.
But we will use them, while browsers like IE6, IE7 and IE8 will exist and while Microsoft will not create a normal browser, which will stand on equal with modern browsers like FireFox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. We, web developers, are constantly faced with deficiencies of Internet Explorer, and CSS hacks allow to overcome them in most cases.
Here is pure CSS ( + 1 extra div for every text ) solution
Works for all IE versions IE7-10
/**
* Works everywere ( IE7+, FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera )
*/
.rotated-text {
display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
width: 1.5em;
}
.rotated-text__inner {
display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;
/* this is for shity "non IE" browsers
that doesn't support writing-mode */
-webkit-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
-moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
-o-transform-origin: 0 0;
transform-origin: 0 0;
/* IE9+ */
-ms-transform: none;
-ms-transform-origin: none;
/* IE8+ */
-ms-writing-mode: tb-rl;
/* IE7 and below */
*writing-mode: tb-rl;
}
.rotated-text__inner:before {
content: "";
float: left;
margin-top: 100%;
}
/* mininless css that used just for this demo */
.container {
float: left;
}
HTML example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="rotated-text"><span class="rotated-text__inner">Easy</span></div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="rotated-text"><span class="rotated-text__inner">Normal</span></div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="rotated-text"><span class="rotated-text__inner">Hard</span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
source: https://gist.github.com/obenjiro/7406727
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You should use conditionnal comment for older IEs .
That what they are meant for and it will do no hurts nor hack (ing head) s :)
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