A comment by aditya: Is there a way to get the angle [through JavaScript] by which the element is rotated? Seems like a reasonable request. So we have some HTML: <div id="i-am-rotated">text</div> And it’s rotated through CSS: #i-am-rotated { -webkit-transform: rotate(30deg); -moz-transform: rotate(30deg); -ms-transform: rotate(30deg); -o-transform: rotate(30deg); } Our goal is to get the number “3