Vertically & horizontally align text after CSS rotation

Question

So I\'m using CSS to rotate some text from horizontal to vertical (90 degrees) like so:

-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
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Answer 1

Alternative method, which is more browser compliant and doesn't need information about amount of text beforehand:

.disclaimer {
    position: absolute;
    right: 10px;
    bottom: 10px;
    font-size: 12px;
    transform: rotate(270deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(270deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(270deg);
    -webkit-transform: rotate(270deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(270deg);
    line-height: 15px;
    height: 15px;
    width: 15px;
    overflow: visible;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/d29cmkej/

Answer 2

You could pull it back in with a few CSS properties...

#whatever {
    position: relative;
    top: -4px;
    right: -10px;
}

Alternatively, you could play with the transform-origin property:

transform: rotate(-90deg);
transform-origin:20% 40%;
-ms-transform: rotate(-90deg); /* IE 9 */
-ms-transform-origin:20% 40%; /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
-webkit-transform-origin:20% 40%; /* Safari and Chrome */
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg); /* Firefox */
-moz-transform-origin:20% 40%; /* Firefox */
-o-transform: rotate(-90deg); /* Opera */
-o-transform-origin:20% 40%; /* Opera */