glyph-orientation-vertical | CSS CSS Properties

A deprecated property used in SVG to control the orientation of characters when text is written vertically. Use 'text-orientation' in modern CSS instead.

Quick example

svg text {
  /* Legacy orientation for vertical SVG text */
  glyph-orientation-vertical: 90deg;
}

glyph-orientation-vertical Browser Support

Limited availability 14% global usage

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Not ready for production without a fallback.

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