How to rotate text and position it properly? (CSS, HTML) - html

Question

I am trying to position a rotated headline next to some text. Statically it works very easy with absolute positioning (left picture). I have, however, difficulties when the page gets resized and the positioning fails (right picture).
Current CSS (can be changed):
.headline {
white-space: nowrap;
position: absolute;
top: 185px;
left: -20px;
transform: rotate(270deg);
}
Current HTML structure (can be changed):
<header>
<h1 class="headline">Über mich</h1>
</header>
<div class="text">
<p class="introduction">....</p>
</div>
How can I position the element so that I always stays 20px next to the paragraph?
Could someone link me to existing patterns how to solve this?
A solution with JS (and jQuery) would an option, I would, however, obviously prefer CSS.

Answer 1

Had the same issue. Managed to solve it like this in pure CSS :
.parent {
position: relative;
}
.child {
position: absolute;
transform: translateX(-100%) rotate(-90deg);
transform-origin: right;
left: 30px; /* change this value to match needs */
top: 30px; /* change this value to match needs */
}

Answer 2

The solution was a combination of Diego's answer and Smamatti's comment:
I had to use transform-origin:bottom and width:0. That was working rather quickly, the big problem I had was positioning the text independently to the length of the text. I've only managed to do this by using javascript.
.header
{
margin: 0;
width: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
position: absolute;
text-align: left;
transform-origin: bottom;
margin-top: 280px;
transform: rotate(270deg);
}
Javascript (to ensure compatibility to variables text length):
function adjustSideHeader() {
//check if the headline is visible
if($('h1.headline').length > 0)
{
var headline = $('h1.headline')[0];
var stringLength = headline.textContent.length;
//add style tag to support media queries
document.querySelector('style').textContent +=
"h1.headline { margin-top: " + (stringLength*23.5) + "px; -webkit-transition: margin-top 2s; transition: margin-top 2s;}"
}
}
// fire it when document is loaded
$(document).ready(setTimeout(adjustSideHeader, 300));
Result:

Answer 3

Have you tried moving
<h1 class="headline">Über mich</h1>
inside
<div class="text">?
and set
.text {
position: relative;
}
so that the position is relative to to "text" div. After that you might want to move the Über mich text to the left by reducing it's left value.

Answer 4

Have you tried use position:relative and the margin property?, I suppose it would be something like this:
.headline {
white-space: nowrap;
position: relative; //changed
margin-top: 185px; //changed
margin-left: -20px; //changed
transform: rotate(270deg);
}
*Note: I think you should move the headline inside the paragraph

Answer 5

I have an answer that may be late but worked wonderfully for me.
Normally your text will have a class or id and it will be position:absolute, and positioning values after it, like so:
.TextClass{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:55%;
transform:rotate(-90deg);
etc.
However, when you rotate, the positioning becomes relative (as mentioned above).
I found out that by simply putting the rotated text inside a parent div, you can position the (unrotated, position absolute) parent div as much as you want, and then rotate the text (which will be position:relative) inside the parent div, like so:
.divname{
position:absolute;
top:50vh;
left:50vw;
}
.TextClass{
position:relative;
transform:rotate(-90deg);
}