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Mattew Eon
Mattew Eon

Reputation: 1783

HTML/CSS : How to write a text vertically, keeping the characters horizontally

I'm wondering if we could write a vertically text, but without use a rotation of any hacks that change the characters direction.

So, instead of "START", I want a text in may div displayed like this :
S
T
A
R
T

I could use "break-word: word-break" and set the width of my element to 0, but the text would'nt be centered. Characters will just be aligned to the left

Not a duplicate of : Vertical Text Direction
I don't want to rotate the text, I want to preserve character's direction

Here is a code example of what I can get :

.vertical-text {
    font-size: 25px;
    word-break: break-word;
    width: 0;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    padding: 0;
    border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate3d(-50%, -50%, 0);
 }
 
 body, html {
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   height: 100%;
   width: 100%
 }
<div class="vertical-text">START IT<div>

Upvotes: 9

Views: 16637

Answers (3)

Abhitalks
Abhitalks

Reputation: 28417

You may use the writing-mode CSS property in conjunction with the text-orientation CSS property.

div {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
  text-orientation: upright;
}

To quote, writing-mode property..

[..]specifies the block flow direction, which is the direction in which block-level containers are stacked, and the direction in which inline-level content flows within a block container. Content flows vertically from top to bottom, horizontally from right to left. The next vertical line is positioned to the left of the previous line.

In effect, this defines whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically and the direction in which blocks progress.

text-orientation property defines the orientation of the text characters in a line. This property only has an effect in vertical mode.

Example:

p:first-of-type {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
}
p:last-of-type {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
  text-orientation: upright;
}
<h4>With writing mode "vertical-lr"</h4>
<p>Start</p>
<hr>
<h4>With writing mode "vertical-lr" and text-orientation "upright"</h4>
<p>Start</p>

Be warned though about text-orientation:

This is an experimental technology Because this technology's specification has not stabilized, check the compatibility table for usage in various browsers. Also note that the syntax and behavior of an experimental technology is subject to change in future versions of browsers as the specification changes.

According to this: https://caniuse.com/#search=text-orientation, it seems nearly all browsers support it as of today, except IE/Edge.

Upvotes: 14

Nur Zico
Nur Zico

Reputation: 2447

Several ways to do it.

Check this tutorial out

UPDATE

Provide the best way to do it to me:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Vertical Text</title>
 
<style>
  h1 span { display: block; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1> START </h1>
   
  <script>
    var h1 = document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0];
    h1.innerHTML = '<span>' + h1.innerHTML.split('').join('</span><span>') + '</span>';
  </script>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: -1

Upendra Joshi
Upendra Joshi

Reputation: 611

You can try :

.vertical-text {
  margin: 0 auto 2em;
  width: 0;
  word-wrap: break-word;
}

body {
  font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
}

h1 {
  margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}
<h1>Vertically Written Text</h1>

<h2 class="vertical-text">Vertical</h2>

<p>Tested in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE 8, IE 9, IE 10 and IE 11.</p>

Upvotes: 0

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