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Rotating the text in the background

Here’s another interesting effect that is created by transforming a rotation.

This time we will rotate the “background” text and also slightly skew the block with the heading using the skew function. And in order to make sure that just the block is skewed and not the text inside it, we should skew the text in the opposite direction by the same angle.

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  • index.html
  • style.css

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Rotating the text in the background</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <div class="content"> <article> <h1><span>CSS3 rules!</span></h1> <p>border-radius border-image break-after break-before break-inside columns transition transition-delay transition-duration transition-timing-function transition-property backface-visibility perspective perspective-origin transform transform-origin transform-style background-clip background-origin background-size box-shadow box-decoration-break opacity @keframes animation animation-delay animation-direction animation-duration</p> </article> </div> </body> </html>

CSS

body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #2ecc40; color: #ffffff; font-family: "Arial Narrow", "Arial", sans-serif; } .content { height: 100%; overflow: hidden; } article { position: relative; } article h1 { position: relative; z-index: 1; width: 200px; margin: 100px auto; padding: 30px; font-size: 30px; text-align: center; background-color: black; } h1 span { display: inline-block; } article p { position: absolute; top: -200px; left: -150px; width: 150%; font-size: 50px; opacity: 0.15; }

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  1. Assign a skew of 15° to the right to the h1 header.
  2. Also assign a left skew of 15° to the span inside the heading.
  3. Rotate p inside article 15° counterclockwise.