JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div style="border: 1px solid red;">
  <img id="myimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/a/a9/Example.jpg" style="border: 3px solid silver;" />
</div>
<a href="#" id="myrotate">[ rotate ]</a>

JavaScript

function rotate(elm, deg) {
    var offsetContLeft, offsetContTop, offsetLeft, offsetTop, newLeft, newTop;
    $(elm).css('transform', 'rotate('+ deg +'deg)');
    // Get the container offset
    offsetContLeft = $(elm).parent().offset().left;
    offsetContTop= $(elm).parent().offset().top;
    // get the new rotated offset
    offsetLeft = $(elm).offset().left;
    offsetTop = $(elm).offset().top;
    // Subtract the two offsets.
    newLeft = offsetContLeft - offsetLeft;
    newTop = offsetContTop - offsetTop;
    // Apply the new offsets to the margin of the element.
    $(elm).css('margin-left', newLeft).css('margin-top', newTop);
}

$("#myrotate").click(function (e) { 
      rotate('#myimage', 90);
});