Jon Combe | Code | HTML clocks using JavaScript and CSS rotation February 2010 Warning: This isn't going to work in any currently available version of Internet Explorer* or many older browsers. Background In July last year, the excellent Jonathan Snook wrote an article about CSS rotation. If you're interested stuff like this and you haven't heard of Mr. Snook before, I suggest you read his stuff. He explains in his article that the Webkit (Google Chrome & Safari) and Firefox 3.5+ browsers support the CSS transform property. He also notes that it is also possible to implement basic (0° / 90° / 180° / 270°) rotations using Internet Explorer, but clearly this wasn't going to cut it for what I wanted to do here. The code to make the clocks work is really very simple. transform: rotate(42deg); // this won't work yet, but one day it may -moz-transform: rotate(42deg); // mozilla specific -o-transform: rotate(42deg); // opera specific -webkit-transform: rotate(42deg); // webkit specific In jQuery that could look like: How it works A couple of things to note
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