how to rotate text left 90 degree and cell size is adjusted according to text in html

lata picture lata · Apr 4, 2013 · Viewed 176.5k times · Source

Suppose i have table with some rows and column,so i want to rotate text in cells something like this
: enter image description here

problem is when i rotate text using style :

#rotate {
     -moz-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* FF3.5+ */
       -o-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* Opera 10.5 */
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* Saf3.1+, Chrome */
             filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083);  /* IE6,IE7 */
         -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083)"; /* IE8 */

it all get messed up like this

html code:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td id='rotate'>10kg</td>
        <td >B</td>
        <td >C</td>
        <td>D</td>
        <td>E</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id='rotate'>20kg</td>
        <td>G</td>
        <td>H</td>
        <td>I</td>
        <td>J</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id='rotate'>30kg</td>
        <td>L</td>
        <td>M</td>
        <td>N</td>
        <td>O</td>
    </tr>


</table>

css:

<style type="text/css">
td {
    border-collapse:collapse;
    border: 1px black solid;
}
tr:nth-of-type(5) td:nth-of-type(1) {
    visibility: hidden;
}
#rotate {
     -moz-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* FF3.5+ */
       -o-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* Opera 10.5 */
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);  /* Saf3.1+, Chrome */
             filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083);  /* IE6,IE7 */
         -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083)"; /* IE8 */
}
</style>

Answer

Daniel Imms picture Daniel Imms · Apr 4, 2013

You can do that by applying your rotate CSS to an inner element and then adjusting the height of the element to match its width since the element was rotated to fit it into the <td>.

Also make sure you change your id #rotate to a class since you have multiple.

A 4x3 table with the headers in the first column rotated by 90 degrees

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.rotate').css('height', $('.rotate').width());
});
td {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border: 1px black solid;
}
tr:nth-of-type(5) td:nth-of-type(1) {
  visibility: hidden;
}
.rotate {
  /* FF3.5+ */
  -moz-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);
  /* Opera 10.5 */
  -o-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);
  /* Saf3.1+, Chrome */
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-90.0deg);
  /* IE6,IE7 */
  filter: progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083);
  /* IE8 */
  -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=0.083)";
  /* Standard */
  transform: rotate(-90.0deg);
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div class='rotate'>10kg</div>
    </td>
    <td>B</td>
    <td>C</td>
    <td>D</td>
    <td>E</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div class='rotate'>20kg</div>
    </td>
    <td>G</td>
    <td>H</td>
    <td>I</td>
    <td>J</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <div class='rotate'>30kg</div>
    </td>
    <td>L</td>
    <td>M</td>
    <td>N</td>
    <td>O</td>
  </tr>


</table>

JavaScript

The equivalent to the above in pure JavaScript is as follows:

jsFiddle

window.addEventListener('load', function () {
    var rotates = document.getElementsByClassName('rotate');
    for (var i = 0; i < rotates.length; i++) {
        rotates[i].style.height = rotates[i].offsetWidth + 'px';
    }
});