Text rotation in Tables....is it possible 1

[dkn]

Hi,

Does anyone know if its possible to display the contents of a table cell rotated 90 degrees clockwise / anti clockwise?.

I am producing a report that has column headings which are dates, and unless I rotate the dates the table is going to be extremely wide!!

Thanks in advance

David )

 

[cian]

See if this works for you:

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
#vertical {
writing-mode: tb-rl;
filter: flipv fliph;
}
-->
</style>

<div id=&quot;vertical&quot;>Going Vertical!!</div>




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[dkn]

Yup, that worked a treat!

I thank you

David )

 

[cian]

No problemo!




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[dkn]

Hi,

After my success yesterday aligning the text text vertically, my baloon has now been popped

The problem I have, is when I print the report I've generated, it gets split into two pages... right in the middle of the vertical dates... this gives me one page with one and a half lines of text on it, with the rest of the report on a seperate page.

However, when I remove the style that gives me vertical text, the report isn't split over two pages... just too damn wide!!!

Anybody any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks in anticipation

David )

 

[cian]

Hi,

If you use absolute positioning does it make any difference?
Just a guess.



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[dkn]

I've found out what the problem was...

As I mentioned it was dates that I was rotating 90 degrees to form column headings for my report. I used a function to format the date into a medium date format i.e. 1/1/2002 would become 1-jan-2002. It appears that the dashes in between the date elements were causing the problem. When I cut the function out of the equation the problem goes away.

Wierd!

Thanks anyway

David )