Vertical (rotated) text in HTML table
HtmlCssText RenderingText StylingHtml Problem Overview
Is there a (portable) way to rotate text in a HTML table cell by 90°?
(I have a table with many columns and much text for the headings, so I'd like to write it vertically to save space.)
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
.box_rotate {
-moz-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* FF3.5+ */
-o-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Opera 10.5 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Saf3.1+, Chrome */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083); /* IE6,IE7 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083)"; /* IE8 */
}
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
<div class="box_rotate">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
Taken from http://css3please.com/
As of 2017, the aforementioned site has simplified the rule set to drop legacy Internet Explorer filter and rely more in the now standard transform property:
.box_rotate {
-webkit-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Chrome, Opera 15+, Safari 3.1+ */
-ms-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* IE 9 */
transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Firefox 16+, IE 10+, Opera */
}
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
<div class="box_rotate">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus vitae porta lectus. Suspendisse dolor mauris, scelerisque ut diam vitae, dictum ultricies est. Cras sit amet erat porttitor arcu lacinia ultricies. Morbi sodales, nisl vitae imperdiet consequat, purus nunc maximus nulla, et pharetra dolor ex non dolor.</div>
Solution 2 - Html
Alternate Solution?
Instead of rotating the text, would it work to have it written "top to bottom?"
Like this:
S
O
M
E
T
E
X
T
I think that would be a lot easier - you can pick a string of text apart and insert a line break after each character.
This could be done via JavaScript in the browser like this:
"SOME TEXT".split("").join("\n")
... or you could do it server-side, so it wouldn't depend on the client's JS capabilities. (I assume that's what you mean by "portable?")
Also the user doesn't have to turn his/her head sideways to read it. :)
Update
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/278940/vertical-text-with-jquery">This thread is about doing this with jQuery.
Solution 3 - Html
There is a quote in the original answer and my previous answer on the IE8 line that throws this off, right near the semi-colon. Yikes and BAAAAD! The code below has the rotation set correctly and works. You have to float in IE for the filter to be applied.
<div style=" float: left; position: relative; -moz-transform: rotate(270deg); /* FF3.5+ /
-o-transform: rotate(270deg); / Opera 10.5 /
-webkit-transform: rotate(270deg); / Saf3.1+, Chrome /
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3); / IE6,IE7 /
-ms-filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3); / IE8 */
" >Count & Value</div>;
Solution 4 - Html
After having tried for over two hours, I can safely say that all the method mentioned so far don't work across browsers, or for IE even across browser versions...
For example (top upvoted answer):
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083); /* IE6,IE7 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083)"; /* IE8 */
rotates twice in IE9, once for filter, and once for -ms-filter, so...
All other mentioned methods do not work either, at least not if you have to set no fixed height/width of the table header cell (with background color), where it should automatically adjust to size of the highest element.
So to elaborate on the server-side image generation proposed by Nathan Long, which is really the only universially working method, here my VB.NET code for a generic handler (*.ashx ):
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.Services
Public Class GenerateImage
Implements System.Web.IHttpHandler
Sub ProcessRequest(ByVal context As HttpContext) Implements IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest
'context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
'context.Response.Write("Hello World!")
context.Response.ContentType = "image/png"
Dim strText As String = context.Request.QueryString("text")
Dim strRotate As String = context.Request.QueryString("rotate")
Dim strBGcolor As String = context.Request.QueryString("bgcolor")
Dim bRotate As Boolean = True
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(strText) Then
strText = "No Text"
End If
Try
If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(strRotate) Then
bRotate = System.Convert.ToBoolean(strRotate)
End If
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
'Dim img As System.Drawing.Image = GenerateImage(strText, "Arial", bRotate)
'Dim img As System.Drawing.Image = CreateBitmapImage(strText, bRotate)
' Generic error in GDI+
'img.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
'Dim bm As System.Drawing.Bitmap = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(img)
'bm.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
Using msTempOutputStream As New System.IO.MemoryStream
'Dim img As System.Drawing.Image = GenerateImage(strText, "Arial", bRotate)
Using img As System.Drawing.Image = CreateBitmapImage(strText, bRotate, strBGcolor)
img.Save(msTempOutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
msTempOutputStream.Flush()
context.Response.Buffer = True
context.Response.ContentType = "image/png"
context.Response.BinaryWrite(msTempOutputStream.ToArray())
End Using ' img
End Using ' msTempOutputStream
End Sub ' ProcessRequest
Private Function CreateBitmapImage(strImageText As String) As System.Drawing.Image
Return CreateBitmapImage(strImageText, True)
End Function ' CreateBitmapImage
Private Function CreateBitmapImage(strImageText As String, bRotate As Boolean) As System.Drawing.Image
Return CreateBitmapImage(strImageText, bRotate, Nothing)
End Function
Private Function InvertMeAColour(ColourToInvert As System.Drawing.Color) As System.Drawing.Color
Const RGBMAX As Integer = 255
Return System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(RGBMAX - ColourToInvert.R, RGBMAX - ColourToInvert.G, RGBMAX - ColourToInvert.B)
End Function
Private Function CreateBitmapImage(strImageText As String, bRotate As Boolean, strBackgroundColor As String) As System.Drawing.Image
Dim bmpEndImage As System.Drawing.Bitmap = Nothing
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(strBackgroundColor) Then
strBackgroundColor = "#E0E0E0"
End If
Dim intWidth As Integer = 0
Dim intHeight As Integer = 0
Dim bgColor As System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.Color.LemonChiffon ' LightGray
bgColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(strBackgroundColor)
Dim TextColor As System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Black
TextColor = InvertMeAColour(bgColor)
'TextColor = Color.FromArgb(102, 102, 102)
' Create the Font object for the image text drawing.
Using fntThisFont As New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 11, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
' Create a graphics object to measure the text's width and height.
Using bmpInitialImage As New System.Drawing.Bitmap(1, 1)
Using gStringMeasureGraphics As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpInitialImage)
' This is where the bitmap size is determined.
intWidth = CInt(gStringMeasureGraphics.MeasureString(strImageText, fntThisFont).Width)
intHeight = CInt(gStringMeasureGraphics.MeasureString(strImageText, fntThisFont).Height)
' Create the bmpImage again with the correct size for the text and font.
bmpEndImage = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(bmpInitialImage, New System.Drawing.Size(intWidth, intHeight))
' Add the colors to the new bitmap.
Using gNewGraphics As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpEndImage)
' Set Background color
'gNewGraphics.Clear(Color.White)
gNewGraphics.Clear(bgColor)
gNewGraphics.SmoothingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.AntiAlias
gNewGraphics.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.AntiAlias
''''
'gNewGraphics.TranslateTransform(bmpEndImage.Width, bmpEndImage.Height)
'gNewGraphics.RotateTransform(180)
'gNewGraphics.RotateTransform(0)
'gNewGraphics.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.SystemDefault
gNewGraphics.DrawString(strImageText, fntThisFont, New System.Drawing.SolidBrush(TextColor), 0, 0)
gNewGraphics.Flush()
If bRotate Then
'bmpEndImage = rotateImage(bmpEndImage, 90)
'bmpEndImage = RotateImage(bmpEndImage, New PointF(0, 0), 90)
'bmpEndImage.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate90FlipNone)
bmpEndImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate270FlipNone)
End If ' bRotate
End Using ' gNewGraphics
End Using ' gStringMeasureGraphics
End Using ' bmpInitialImage
End Using ' fntThisFont
Return bmpEndImage
End Function ' CreateBitmapImage
' http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3zxbwxch.aspx
' http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7e1w5dhw.aspx
' http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=dotnet&seqNum=286
' http://road-blogs.blogspot.com/2011/01/rotate-text-in-ssrs.html
Public Shared Function GenerateImage_CrappyOldReportingServiceVariant(ByVal strText As String, ByVal strFont As String, bRotate As Boolean) As System.Drawing.Image
Dim bgColor As System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.Color.LemonChiffon ' LightGray
bgColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#E0E0E0")
Dim TextColor As System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Black
'TextColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0, 255)
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(strFont) Then
strFont = "Arial"
Else
If strFont.Trim().Equals(String.Empty) Then
strFont = "Arial"
End If
End If
'Dim fsFontStyle As System.Drawing.FontStyle = System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular
Dim fsFontStyle As System.Drawing.FontStyle = System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold
Dim fontFamily As New System.Drawing.FontFamily(strFont)
Dim iFontSize As Integer = 8 '//Change this as needed
' vice-versa, because 270° turn
'Dim height As Double = 2.25
Dim height As Double = 4
Dim width As Double = 1
' width = 10
' height = 10
Dim bmpImage As New System.Drawing.Bitmap(1, 1)
Dim iHeight As Integer = CInt(height * 0.393700787 * bmpImage.VerticalResolution) 'y DPI
Dim iWidth As Integer = CInt(width * 0.393700787 * bmpImage.HorizontalResolution) 'x DPI
bmpImage = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(bmpImage, New System.Drawing.Size(iWidth, iHeight))
'// Create the Font object for the image text drawing.
'Dim MyFont As New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", iFontSize, fsFontStyle, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point)
'// Create a graphics object to measure the text's width and height.
Dim MyGraphics As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpImage)
MyGraphics.Clear(bgColor)
Dim stringFormat As New System.Drawing.StringFormat()
stringFormat.FormatFlags = System.Drawing.StringFormatFlags.DirectionVertical
'stringFormat.FormatFlags = System.Drawing.StringFormatFlags.DirectionVertical Or System.Drawing.StringFormatFlags.DirectionRightToLeft
Dim solidBrush As New System.Drawing.SolidBrush(TextColor)
Dim pointF As New System.Drawing.PointF(CSng(iWidth / 2 - iFontSize / 2 - 2), 5)
Dim font As New System.Drawing.Font(fontFamily, iFontSize, fsFontStyle, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point)
MyGraphics.TranslateTransform(bmpImage.Width, bmpImage.Height)
MyGraphics.RotateTransform(180)
MyGraphics.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.SystemDefault
MyGraphics.DrawString(strText, font, solidBrush, pointF, stringFormat)
MyGraphics.ResetTransform()
MyGraphics.Flush()
'If Not bRotate Then
'bmpImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate90FlipNone)
'End If
Return bmpImage
End Function ' GenerateImage
ReadOnly Property IsReusable() As Boolean Implements IHttpHandler.IsReusable
Get
Return False
End Get
End Property ' IsReusable
End Class
Note that if you think that this part
Using msTempOutputStream As New System.IO.MemoryStream
'Dim img As System.Drawing.Image = GenerateImage(strText, "Arial", bRotate)
Using img As System.Drawing.Image = CreateBitmapImage(strText, bRotate, strBGcolor)
img.Save(msTempOutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
msTempOutputStream.Flush()
context.Response.Buffer = True
context.Response.ContentType = "image/png"
context.Response.BinaryWrite(msTempOutputStream.ToArray())
End Using ' img
End Using ' msTempOutputStream
can be replaced with
img.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
because it works on the development server, then you are sorely mistaken to assume the very same code wouldn't throw a Generic GDI+ exception if you deploy it to a Windows 2003 IIS 6 server...
then use it like this:
<img alt="bla" src="GenerateImage.ashx?no_cache=123&text=Hello%20World&rotate=true" />
Solution 5 - Html
My first contribution to the community , example as rotating a simple text and the header of a table, only using html and css.
HTML
<div class="rotate">text</div>
CSS
.rotate {
display:inline-block;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);
-webkit-transform: rotate(270deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(270deg);
transform: rotate(270deg);
}
Solution 6 - Html
IE filters plus CSS transforms (Safari and Firefox).
IE's support is the oldest, Safari has [at least some?] support in 3.1.2, and Firefox won't have support until 3.1.
Alternatively, I would recommend a mix of Canvas/VML or SVG/VML. (Canvas has wider support.)
Solution 7 - Html
Here is one that works for plain-text with some server side processing:
public string RotateHtmltext(string innerHtml)
{
const string TRANSFORMTEXT = "transform: rotate(90deg);";
const string EXTRASTYLECSS = "<style type='text/css'>.r90 {"
+ "-webkit-" + TRANSFORMTEXT
+ "-moz-" + TRANSFORMTEXT
+ "-o-" + TRANSFORMTEXT
+ "-ms-" + TRANSFORMTEXT
+ "" + TRANSFORMTEXT
+ "width:1em;line-height:1ex}</style>";
const string WRAPPERDIV = "<div style='display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;'>";
var newinnerHtml = string.Join("</div>"+WRAPPERDIV, Regex.Split(innerHtml, @"<br */?>").Reverse());
newinnerHtml = Regex.Replace(newinnerHtml, @"((?:<[^>]*>)|(?:[^<]+))",
match => match.Groups[1].Value.StartsWith("<")
? match.Groups[1].Value
: string.Join("", match.Groups[1].Value.ToCharArray().Select(x=>"<div class='r90'>"+x+"</div>")),
RegexOptions.Singleline);
return EXTRASTYLECSS + WRAPPERDIV + newinnerHtml + "</div>";
}
which gives something like:
<style type="text/css">.r90 {
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
transform: rotate(90deg);
width: 1em;
line-height: 1ex;
}</style>
<div style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;">
<div class="r90">p</div>
<div class="r90">o</div>
<div class="r90">s</div>
</div><div style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;">
<div class="r90">(</div>
<div class="r90">A</div>
<div class="r90">b</div>
<div class="r90">s</div>
<div class="r90">)</div>
</div>
Solution 8 - Html
I was using the Font Awesome library and was able to achieve this affect by tacking on the following to any html element.
<div class="fa fa-rotate-270">
My Test Text
</div>
Your mileage may vary.
Solution 9 - Html
Another solution:
(function () {
var make_rotated_text = function (text)
{
var can = document.createElement ('canvas');
can.width = 10;
can.height = 10;
var ctx=can.getContext ("2d");
ctx.font="20px Verdana";
var m = ctx.measureText(text);
can.width = 20;
can.height = m.width;
ctx.font="20px Verdana";
ctx.fillStyle = "#000000";
ctx.rotate(90 * (Math.PI / 180));
ctx.fillText (text, 0, -2);
return can;
};
var canvas = make_rotated_text ("Hellooooo :D");
var body = document.getElementsByTagName ('body')[0];
body.appendChild (canvas);
}) ();
I do absolutely admit that this is quite hackish, but it's a simple solution if you want to avoid bloating your css.
Solution 10 - Html
-moz-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* FF3.5+ */
-o-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Opera 10.5 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(7.5deg); /* Saf3.1+, Chrome */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=1); /* IE6,IE7 allows only 1, 2, 3 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=1)"; /* IE8 allows only 1 2 or 3*/
Solution 11 - Html
Have a look at this, i found this while looking for a solution for IE 7.
totally a cool solution for css only vibes
Thanks aiboy for the soultion
[heres the link][1]
and here is the stack-overflow link where i came across this [link meow][2]
.vertical-text-vibes{
/* this is for shity "non IE" browsers
that dosn't support writing-mode */
-webkit-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
transform: translate(1.1em,0) rotate(90deg);
-webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
-moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
-o-transform-origin: 0 0;
transform-origin: 0 0;
/* IE9+ */ ms-transform: none;
-ms-transform-origin: none;
/* IE8+ */ -ms-writing-mode: tb-rl;
/* IE7 and below */ *writing-mode: tb-rl;
}
[1]: https://gist.github.com/aiboy/7406727 "The link" [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17286651/vertical-text-in-ie7-ie8-ie9-and-ie10-with-css-only