If the column headings are not dynamic, a gif would work....

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre L Crane" <andre(at)terracrane.com>
To: "'Gary Krockover'" <gary(at)garykrockover.com>; "'HWG techniques (E-mail)'"
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: rotating text 90 degrees counter clockwise?


> Thanks Gary,  unfortunately what we are trying to do is actually rotate
the
> text 90 degrees counter clockwise.  What you suggest would be really easy
to
> accomplish, but not as easy to read.  If the columns were going to stay
the
> same then we could just use images to accomplish this but there are going
to
> be more columns added for quite some time (until the product is
stabilized).
> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Anyone else have an idea?
>
> Andre
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Krockover [mailto:gary(at)garykrockover.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:21 PM
> To: andre(at)terracrane.com; HWG techniques (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: rotating text 90 degrees counter clockwise?
>
>
> 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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