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Text orientation in table cell?
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| Andrew Thompson 2004-02-20, 11:31 am |
| Is there a way to achieve (or a good
reason not to) the 'vertical text' effect
displayed here in the planetary labels..
http://www.physci.org/test/graph/imgresize.html
The page uses <br> to break each letter
of the word. I was sure there must be
a CSS way to change the text orientation
if a table cell, but a google of ciwah
for orientation+td+text did not reveal
any hits.
Thoughts, comments, search terms?
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Andrew Thompson
* http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
* http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
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| On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:46:07 GMT, Andrew Thompson <SeeMySites@www.invalid>
wrote:
> Is there a way to achieve (or a good
> reason not to) the 'vertical text' effect
> displayed here in the planetary labels..
> http://www.physci.org/test/graph/imgresize.html
If a speech reader were to read the page, it would have to spell out the
planets. You could use an aural CSS to solve that dilemma, however.
Another problem I see is spider indexing.
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| Andrew Thompson 2004-02-20, 11:31 am |
| Neal wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:46:07 GMT, Andrew Thompson
> <SeeMySites@www.invalid> wrote:
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> If a speech reader were to read the page, it would have to spell out
> the planets. You could use an aural CSS to solve that dilemma,
> however.
Thanks. I'll have to look into that.
I have only just introduced a print
stylesheet, so new it is not even
validated yet..
[ oops, did I say that? ;-) ]
> Another problem I see is spider indexing.
Oh, yeah, the proverbial 'gonna'..
I am gonna replace the less than
helpful "" alt texts of the image bars
to "label - value" (on the suggestion
of folks right here, ..long, long ago -
at least a month).
OTOH the page will be generated
dynamically (jsp), so there is not
a great opportunity for spiders
in any case ..unless they spider
particular complete URL's, which
would form a self contained page..
(wanders off ..muttering).
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Andrew Thompson
* http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
* http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
* http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology
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| Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Is there a way to achieve (or a good
> reason not to) the 'vertical text' effect
> displayed here in the planetary labels..
> http://www.physci.org/test/graph/imgresize.html
>
> The page uses <br> to break each letter
> of the word. I was sure there must be
> a CSS way to change the text orientation
> if a table cell, but a google of ciwah
> for orientation+td+text did not reveal
> any hits.
>
> Thoughts, comments, search terms?
>
> --
> Andrew Thompson
> * http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
> * http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
> * http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology
>
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writing-mode Attribute
"tb-rl Content in the object flows vertically—from top to bottom, right
to left. The next vertical line is positioned to the left of the
previous line. Wide-cell glyphs are positioned upright; nonwide-cell
glyphs—also known as narrow Latin or narrow Kana glyphs—are rotated
90-degrees clockwise. This layout is used in East Asian typography."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/...writingmode.asp
I tested it under MSIE 6 SP1 for windows and it worked well.
CSS3 Text module (Candidate Recommedation): writing-mode
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-t...4/#writing-mode
For a cross-browser solution, writing-mode is not recommendable. Not
sure if using <br>'s is the best. I would try something else...
DU
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| Karl Smith 2004-02-21, 1:28 am |
| "Andrew Thompson" wrote:
> Is there a way to achieve (or a good
> reason not to) the 'vertical text' effect
> displayed here in the planetary labels..
> http://www.physci.org/test/graph/imgresize.html
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> The page uses <br> to break each letter
> of the word. I was sure there must be
> a CSS way to change the text orientation
> if a table cell, but a google of ciwah
> for orientation+td+text did not reveal
> any hits.
I remember this was asked back in July, 2002.
> Thoughts, comments, search terms?
vertical+slick
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| Andrew Thompson 2004-02-21, 5:28 am |
| Karl Smith wrote:
> "Andrew Thompson" wrote:
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....[color=darkred]
> I remember this was asked back in July, 2002.
....
> vertical+slick
Thanks, that gives me some ideas to chew
over.. The best solution I have read so far is
yours to 's p a c e..' the letters, I think that,
with a fixed width font could do what I need.
[ BTW - like your PToE.
And.. no better way to prove
you were serious! ;-) ]
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Andrew Thompson
* http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
* http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
* http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology
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