Align (CSS rotated) element to left of its container - HTML / CSS

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I have a series of 3 SVG elements inside a wrapper element and I have rotated this wrapper by -90 deg with a CSS transform.

I'm trying to get it so the yellow containing block is pinned to the left of the screen, so I can then alter how far from the left (% or vw) this yellow wrapper sits.

I can't for the life of me get it stick to the left - the transform seems to be making everything a lot harder. I need it so that even if the window is resized it stays a set % (or vw) from the far left - for arguments sake say 5% / 5vw.

P.S I'm using SVG text because it's part of a clip-path animation, but I have removed this code to make things easier to read.

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What I have tried:

CSS

body {
  margin: 0; 
  width: 100%; 
  height: 100vh;
  position: relative;
}

#wrapper {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  background: yellow;
  transform: rotate(-90deg);
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
}

#wrapper svg {margin: 1rem}
text {font-size: 1rem}

HTML

<!-- THIS IS THE YELLOW BLOCK CONTAINING THE SVG ELEMENTS -->
<div id="wrapper">

  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="120" height="40" viewBox="0 0 120 40">
    <rect class="masker" x="0" y="0" width="120" height="40" fill="red" />
    <text x="16" y="25" fill="white">Some Text 1</text>
  </svg>

  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="120" height="40" viewBox="0 0 120 40">
    <rect class="masker" x="0" y="0" width="120" height="40" fill="red" />
    <text x="16" y="25" fill="white">Some Text 2</text>
  </svg>

  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="120" height="40" viewBox="0 0 120 40">
    <rect class="masker" x="0" y="0" width="120" height="40" fill="red" />
    <text x="16" y="25" fill="white">Some Text 3</text>
  </svg>
  
</div>

Posted 22-Mar-18 12:01pm

TheChewy

Updated 23-Mar-18 7:58am

Richard Deeming

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2018-03-23T07:59:00

Fairly simple - you just need to set the transform-origin[^] to "top left", and translate[^] the result:

CSS

#wrapper {
  ...
  transform: rotate(-90deg) translate(-100%, 0);
  transform-origin: top left;
  ...
}

Pin Rotated Container to the Left of Parent - forked[^]

An attempt to explain what's going on:
CSS rotation + alignment[^]
Click on the blocks under "Rotated" and "Translated" to see a simple animation of the CSS transformations.