This looks like it should be possible with the following:
.verticalText
{
/* IE-only DX filter */
writing-mode: tb-rl;
filter: flipv
This tool did all the thinking for me...
http://www.boogdesign.com/examples/transforms/matrix-calculator.html
Webkit has added:
-webkit-writing-mode:vertical-rl;
Which you can apply to a div
.
As I answered on a similar question, I solved it this using a jQuery plugin by David Votrubec and the comment by Mike below the blog post.
Put this in a .js-file:
(function ($) {
$.fn.rotateTableCellContent = function (options) {
/*
Version 1.0
7/2011
Written by David Votrubec (davidjs.com) and
Michal Tehnik (@Mictech) for ST-Software.com
*/
var cssClass = ((options) ? options.className : false) || "vertical";
var cellsToRotate = $('.' + cssClass, this);
var betterCells = [];
cellsToRotate.each(function () {
var cell = $(this)
, newText = cell.text()
, height = cell.height()
, width = cell.width()
, newDiv = $('<div>', { height: width, width: height })
, newInnerDiv = $('<div>', { text: newText, 'class': 'rotated' });
newInnerDiv.css('-webkit-transform-origin', (width / 2) + 'px ' + (width / 2) + 'px');
newInnerDiv.css('-moz-transform-origin', (width / 2) + 'px ' + (width / 2) + 'px');
newDiv.append(newInnerDiv);
betterCells.push(newDiv);
});
cellsToRotate.each(function (i) {
$(this).html(betterCells[i]);
});
};
})(jQuery);
And this at the top of your page:
<script src="rotatetablecellcontent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.yourtableclass').rotateTableCellContent();
});
</script>
And this in your CSS:
/* Styles for rotateTableCellContent plugin*/
table div.rotated {
-webkit-transform: rotate(270deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(270deg);
writing-mode:tb-rl;
white-space: nowrap;
}
thead th {
vertical-align: top;
}
table .vertical {
white-space: nowrap;
}
Then make sure your table has the class "yourtableclass", and that all the TDs you want rotated have the class "vertical".
Here's a demo running in a jsFiddle.
Hope it helps someone, even though I'm two years late!
‘transform’ alters the orientation of the entire element you declare it on, not the text content inside it. It's more like IE's ‘matrix’ property than ‘writing-mode’.
Crucially, transforming an element doesn't change how its content size is calculated (or how its parent's layout is affected by that size). CSS's algorithms for vertical and horizontal sizing are different and difficult enough to get right to being with; there's no real consistent way they could accomodate content with arbitrary rotation. So ‘transform’ is like using ‘position: relative’: it changes where the content is rendered, but not anything to do with layout size.
So if you want to include one in a table you'll need to set the cell's ‘height’ explicitly to accomodate the expected rotated ‘width’. If you don't know that in advance you could potentially hack it up with JavaScript, perhaps.
FWIW: for me on Fx3.1b3 the span is also rotated like the others. However on Windows with its horizontal-only anti-aliasing (ClearType) the rendering doesn't look great... a well-rendered image could come out considerably better.
It's possible using inline SVG in a XHTML document (I only tested Safari and Firefox):
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="150">
<text id="thetext" transform="rotate(270, 12, 0) translate(-140,0)">Example column header</text>
</svg>
</td>
<td>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="150">
<text id="thetext" transform="rotate(270, 12, 0) translate(-140,0)">Example column header</text>
</svg>
</td>
<td>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="150">
<text id="thetext" transform="rotate(270, 12, 0) translate(-140,0)">Example column header</text>
</svg>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Example row header</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Unfortunately, you do have to explicitly set the width and height of your table cells and the translation of the text rendered using SVG. Also, the file extension must be xhtml
.
In order to have rotated text inside your table headers:
th
, position:absolute on the rotated divs.th
headers tooDone.
You can see it here:
Which you can see on this page if you make your window skinny - less than 1000 pixels and it rotates the table headers - http://www.rugbydata.com/
Here's the code I used:
div.rotatabletext {
-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Firefox */
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* IE */
-ms-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Opera */
-o-transform: rotate(-90deg);
/* Internet Explorer */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);
width:0px;
text-align:left;
height:0px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-top:0px;
bottom:2px;
position:absolute;
}
table.tournamentresults > * > tr > td {
padding:1px;
}
table.tournamentresults > thead > tr:nth-child(1) > th:nth-child(1) {
height:70px;
position:relative;
}
table.tournamentresults > thead > tr:nth-child(2) th {
height:70px;
position:relative;
}