Can CSS Tilt Paragraphs at an Angle?

March 16, 2004 8:03 AM

CSS question. I know you can orientate paragraphs horizontally and even vertically using CSS. However, is it possible to give paragraph a constant tilt, like this?

I'm pretty sure this is impossible, but I'd love to be proved wrong....

posted by MintSauce to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

You can do it with IE filters (as shown with one of my silly IE toys here). But that only works for IE4+/Win32 PC, and even then it's not 100% guaranteed to work. No other way to do this outside of Flash or Images, afaik.
posted by kokogiak at 8:23 AM on March 16, 2004

There's this from Eric Meyer's site. It talks about putting slanted edges on areas of text. There's also this from the CSS Zen Garden which actually works more on fooling the eye with slanted border images.

But that's the closest I could find.
posted by mccreath at 9:53 AM on March 16, 2004

kokogiak, that's a fun tool you cooked up but it didn't work well with my website. Boohoo!
posted by billsaysthis at 9:48 PM on March 16, 2004

You can tip the borders of the text area (using slants and stuff), but you can't make the actual text tip in any kind of browser-neutral way.
posted by abcde at 12:05 AM on March 17, 2004