Online Vertical Layout: Chinese Characters, Images and the Web

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Chor, Louis

• This essay introduces simple HTML coding for creating vertical text on the Web. This coding can also enable images to move horizontally across the screen in a panoramic presentation. The coding is originally a Microsoft adaptation of a version of Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3), and as such in the early 2000s the coding worked only on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Beginning probably in the mid-2010s, all popular Web browsers including Apple's Safari have had the vertical text display functionality built in.

• Date created

  2007-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Journal of East Asian Libraries
  • Online text
  • Text direction
  • Online images
  • Vertical text direction
  • World Wide Web
  • Chinese text direction
  • Chinese characters

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R32K3G

• License

  Attribution 4.0 International