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Enable text to be run at a 90 degree angle to the normal
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Author: sigh

Description:
A useful tool for creating complex tables would be the ability to have text,
primarily the headers, run down to up, instead of the normal left to right.
This will keep the column from being too wide and pushing other columns off the
screen. I've given an example of the type of text I propose in an image file in
the URL I linked.

My apologies if I didn't understand this form properly.

Osiris


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Table#Text_in_the_vertical_direction

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Reference
bz7450

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:24 PM
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jimmy.collins wrote:

IMHO this only can be done with:

<td style="writing-mode: tb-rl; filter: flipV() flipH();">

But this only works in IE, not in FireFox f.e.

ayg wrote:

This isn't possible with CSS 2.1, and I can't find anything on it in current CSS
3 drafts. Is it possible with JavaScript?

robchur wrote:

If it ever becomes possible in standard CSS, we'll come back to it. Closing as
LATER for now.

EN.WP.ST47 wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9436 ***