Vertically center rotated text with CSS

Question

I have the following HTML:

    
Centered?

div.

Answer 1

The key is to set position top and left to 50% and then transformX and transformY to -50%.

.inner {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
}

.rotate {  
    transform:  translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%) rotate(-90deg);
}

see: http://jsfiddle.net/CCMyf/79/