Rotating column headers

Hi

With CSS transformations I have finally found a way to rotate column 
headers in order to save space. I have put it into experimental use for 
FFox 3.5 at:

http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements/

(Apologies to Webkit: I will add support soon.)

Without this feature my table gets really wide and will cause excessive 
horizontal scrolling for most users. It also helps trying to fit the 
table on a paper for printing.

This is a very clear use-case and a standard feature in all spreadsheet 
software.

I have described my technique at 
http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/2009/05/rotating-column-headers-using-css-only.html

As you can see my method is quite a hack and very fragile and I can't 
use the same values for Gecko and Webkit.

It seems to me that there should be a way to achieve this result that is 
easy and stable. Has this been discussed and if so can someone point me 
to that discussion?


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Received on Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:02:32 UTC