Re: rotating text 90 degrees counter clockwise?

by "Gary Krockover" <gary(at)garykrockover.com>

Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:20:58 -0600
To:	<andre(at)terracrane.com>, "HWG techniques \(E-mail\)" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	trudi
	todo: View Thread, Original

I don't know what kind of database you have the information stored in, but
can you either store it as, or format after retrieval with a <br> after each
character so that it would display as:

L<br>
o<br>
n<br>
g<br>
<br>
H<br>
e<br>
a<br>
d<br>
e<br>
r<br>

?

GK


> Is there a way to do this?
>
> The way it would be used is in an online reporting app where there are
> several columns of data and the column names are quite long (descriptive
for
> the end user) and the page wants to scroll sideways.  If we can rotate the
> column headers then that issue would go away.  The column names will be
> modified and new columns will be added depending on the circumstances so
we
> are pulling the column header's from the database.
>
> TIA,
>
> Andre
>

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