css - Vertically rotate text inside an HTML table header cell

Question

I am using the following css to rotate the text inside table header cells but the header cells is of the same width as if the text were horizontal.How can I just rotate the text and the width will reduce automatically..

    table#MyTable tr th a{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    display: block;
    /*Firefox*/
    -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    /*Safari*/
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    /*Opera*/
    -o-transform: rotate(-90deg);
    /*IE*/
    writing-mode: tb-rl;
    filter: flipv fliph;
    padding: 60px 1px;
}

Answer 1

If you need to adjust just the width of the cells and they contain only one line of text each you can do this: http://jsfiddle.net/sSP8W/3/ — set width of an element to it's line-height.

The problem with CSS3-transforms is that they work like as CSS' position: relative: their original box stays the same, so rotating, skewing etc. don't cause the changes in the element's dimensions. So: there is really no perfect CSS solution, you can use JS to adjust the dimensions, or try to find hackety workarounds. So if you have only links in a table, you can do something like that: http://jsfiddle.net/sSP8W/4/ — rotating the table itself.

If your case have another content that you don't want to rotate — update the post, so we could try to find a better solution.

upd: Just found out a solution to the rotated text in tables: using some magic with vertical paddings we could make cells stretch to the content, so look at this almost final example: http://dabblet.com/gist/4072362