Orient text vertically in HTML like in Excel

Question

I'm trying to replicate Excel's Vertical Text feature in HTML and wondering if anyone has tried this or knows of an easy way to do this?

I want my text to look like:

T

H

I

S

inside of a <th> element

Answer 1

IE-only soltuion:

<div style="writing-mode:tb-rl;filter: flipv fliph;">
    The Vertical Text
</div>

You can try same thing for th tag.

Answer 2

You could try this. Gives a little more control over spacing than using <br />

From the site:

CSS:

#vertical {
  width:15em; 
  padding:0;
  margin:0 auto; 
  list-style-type:none; 
  font-size:1.4em; 
  font-family:georgia, "times new roman", serif;
  }
#vertical li {
  float:left; 
  border:0.2em solid #eee;
  margin:0.1em;
  }
#vertical li a {
  text-decoration:none; 
  color:#000; 
  display:block; 
  width:1.5em; 
  height:1.5em; 
  border-top:0.1em solid #000; 
  height:auto;
  }
#vertical li a em {
  font-style:normal; 
  display:block; 
  text-align:center; 
  background:#fff; 
  border-left:0.1em solid #000; 
  border-right:0.1em solid #000;
  }
#vertical li a em.nd {
  border-bottom:0.1em solid #000;
  }
#vertical li a:hover {
  background:#eee;
  }
#vertical li a:hover em {
  background:#eee; 
  color:#800;
  }

And the markup:

<ul id="vertical">
  <li>
    <a href="../menu/index.html">
      <em>D</em><em>E</em><em>M</em>
      <em>O</em><em class="nd">S</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../menus/index.html">
      <em>M</em><em>E</em><em>N</em>
      <em>U</em><em class="nd">S</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../layouts/index.html">
      <em>L</em><em>A</em><em>Y</em><em>O</em>
      <em>U</em><em>T</em><em class="nd">S</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../boxes/index.html">
      <em>B</em><em>O</em><em>X</em>
      <em>E</em><em class="nd">S</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../mozilla/index.html">
      <em>M</em><em>O</em><em>Z</em><em>I</em>
      <em>L</em><em>L</em><em class="nd">A</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../ie/index.html">
      <em>E</em><em>X</em><em>P</em><em>L</em>
      <em>O</em><em>R</em><em>E</em><em class="nd">R</em>
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../opacity/index.html">
      <em>O</em><em>P</em><em>A</em><em>C</em>
      <em>I</em><em>T</em><em class="nd">Y</em>
    </a>
  </li>
</ul>