A long time ago, I thought I remembered seeing someone create a table with vertical headings as part of shrinking down a table for use. Ex:



Instead of the headers like 'This is vertical' it would display as if rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Any way to do that or was I hallucinating that long ago?

Short answer - You were hallucinating.  (c;

Long answer - Though there's a few ways to do it in HTML, there's no one method that guarantees it will be rendered in all browsers.  So without a reliable method we unfortunately can't have vertical text.

A workaround if you really need one might be this:



which works in a game thread, but not here on Tech. Discussions, where images aren't allowed.

But I think this would only be worth it if you were going to use the table a lot, since it's a hassle to set up.

If someone really had the gumption, they could write a php script that took the desired caption as a parameter and output the needed graphic, which would look work like this:



If it's important, I can write such a script. (In truth, I suspect usage would be low enough that I could host it if desired, though I might need to research that a bit.)

Obvious caveats would apply, the vertical text graphic wouldn't change with the theme, wouldn't get extra-pixels on retina displays, isn't localizable, etc... etc...
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Didn't realize I couldn't link to it either. So, you'll need to copy the code and paste it into your own thread if you want to see what it looks like.

Eh, it's not that important, it would just make things fit in a window better, but that's why they made scrollbars, right? :)

Thanks for the input guys!