Pure CSS rotate by incrementing amount

Question

Is it possible to use pure CSS to rotate successive elements by a set amount (say 5deg).

I tried the following:

HTML

<div class="container">
    <div>Thing 1</div>
    <div>Thing 2</div>
    <div>Thing 3</div>
</div>

CSS

.container { 
    counter: my-counter;
}

.container > div {
    transform: rotateZ(counter(my-counter)deg);
    counter-increment: my-counter 5;
}

/* just to show the counter works: */
.container > div:after {
    content: counter(my-counter); 
    margin-left: 1em;
}

But to no avail.

CSS counters per MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Lists_and_Counters/Using_CSS_counters

Answer 1

Not sure if there is a way to do this considering sibling elements but if you are able to consider nested elements you simple need to do something like this:

.container div {
  transform: rotate(10deg);
  transform-origin:top left;
  margin:10px;
}

<div class="container">
  <div>Thing 1
  <div>Thing 2
  <div>Thing 3</div>
              </div>
              </div>
</div>