A tech question for my web-writing guru friends.

[reynardo]

I'm working for a place that wants to put up web pages with enormous tables in them. The tables must be on the web page - no "please click here and we'll give you a very nice PDF with the neat and nice table on it".

One of the table has rather long column headings, and the person who made it (in Word) wants the headings to sit vertically in the Heading column. Unfortunately neither I nor my companion here can work out how to do it. We can turn text vertical for the whole table, but not just for one row.

Any ideas?

Comments

[leadgend.livejournal.com]

You can't just embed a PDF into the page in the same manner as any other pic?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

The bosses don't want that. They want a proper table on the page.

Although if we cry some more we might be able to persuade them otherwise.

Don't ask about the flowchart pictures in excel...

[moxie_man]

My suggestions wouldn't be very useful and involve suggesting boss take some web design program classes so that they get a clue. :)

I suppose they want you to do this all with (shudder) FrontPage and keep the memory size of each webpage to an absolute minimum, too, huh?

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Try this - http://ajaxian.com/archives/text-rotation-for-all

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

There's text rotation in CSS but it's not universally useful.

What did you do to transform the text in the entire table?

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the simplest solution (that will work with all browsers, even older ones) is to turn the text into question into an image. Just make sure that that you include the full text in the alt text for the image.

It's not a good solution but it's better than fucking about with system specific filters.

[wookie-cd.livejournal.com]

this *may* help

a solution that's a simple as a club to the head, and about as elegant - break up the line with br tags