CSS transform doesn't work on inline elements

Question

I wanted to mirror letter E in the word WEBLOG so I used CSS transform property but it doesn\'t work if I wrap the text inside a span but it works

Answer 1

Answered here in the official W3 specifications under transformable element:

an element whose layout is governed by the CSS box model which is either a block-level or atomic inline-level element, or whose ‘display’ property computes to ‘table-row’, ‘table-row-group’, ‘table-header-group’, ‘table-footer-group’, ‘table-cell’, or ‘table-caption’ [CSS21]