Export vertical text

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Hello, I have a problem with exporting vertical text. I have table in html with VERTICAL text in one cell:

	<colgroup>
		<col style="width: 33.2936%;" data-mce-style="width: 33.2936%;">
			<col style="width: 33.2936%;" data-mce-style="width: 33.2936%;">
				<col style="width: 33.2936%;" data-mce-style="width: 33.2936%;">
				</colgroup>
				<tbody>
					<tr style="height: 66.3594px;" data-mce-style="height: 66.3594px;">
						<td class="rotate-text" style="transform: rotate(180deg); writing-mode: vertical-rl;" data-mce-style="transform: rotate(180deg); writing-mode: vertical-rl;">VERTICAL</td>
						<td>
							<br>
							</td>
							<td>
								<br>
								</td>
							</tr>
						</tbody>
					</table>

How can I detect that text in this cell is vertical?

And how to export it to MS Word like this?

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P.S. I`m detecting table in Document using this way - document.getChildNodes(NodeType.TABLE, true)

Than I get var tableRows = table.getRows() … getCells() etc.

But there is no sign that text is vertical in the cell.

Maybe I should add something in this HTML table?

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@cagecrew You can use writing-mode attaribute in html to specify text direction in cells:

<html>
<body>
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border:0.75pt solid #000000;">
        <tr>
            <td style="writing-mode:tb-rl;">
                Vertical
            </td>
            <td style="writing-mode:tb-rl;">
                Vertical
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

You can specify text direction it table cell programmatically using CellFormat.Orientation property

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Thanks, it is OK. But now I have another problem, I made cell.getCellFormat().setOrientation(TextOrientation.UPWARD); but receive this:

Row don`t fit height to vertical text, despite this

row.getRowFormat().setHeightRule(HeightRule.AUTO);

How can I make the Row grow vertically?

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Any ideas how to fix this?

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@cagecrew In this case you should explicitely specify row height:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
        
builder.startTable();
builder.insertCell();
builder.insertCell();
builder.getCellFormat().setOrientation(TextOrientation.UPWARD);
builder.getRowFormat().setHeight(100);
builder.write("Vertical");
builder.endRow();
builder.endTable();
        
doc.save("C:\\Temp\\out.docx");
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But i don’t know how long will be vertical content or whether it will be vertical at all. I want to set height of the row dynamically, depending on content

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@cagecrew I am afraid there is no other way to achieve this. MS Word does the same when you change text orientation in cell - it sets height of the row explicitly. So you should calculate text width and then set row height accordingly.

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