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Vertical Text

Introduction

Very simply, this guide shows how to make your text vertical using some simple CSS. If the examples below are not vertical then you are not using IE. This technique makes use of "Visual Filters" which are an IE only technology at present.

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CSS Code

You can easily make vertical text with the following css:

In to the <head> section put your CSS:

And into the body:

The result, if it works in your browser, should be:

If we want to play with this a little we can, for example, change the filter from 'flip vertical - flip hotizontal' to 'flip vertical - flip vertical'. Combining this with the first example we can have the following:

It is also advised to specify the width otherwise you may get word wrap.

It's not entirely useful but what the heck...

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