Left and Right Expander Text

[Jamest]

Does anyone have an example of how to have vertical text on a left/right RadExpander. The issue is that the expander renders with the width of the text, making it a giant block (its width is still the width of the text). 

 
                        

<telerik:RadExpander  ExpandDirection="Right" IsExpanded="False"   >
                                <telerik:RadExpander.Header>
                                            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"  FontSize="12" Foreground="#FFF7F3F7" Text=" " RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"  x:Name="tbAdvancedOptions" >
                                                <TextBlock.RenderTransform>
                                                    <TransformGroup>
                                                        <ScaleTransform/>
                                                        <SkewTransform/>
                                                        <RotateTransform Angle="-90"/>
                                                        <TranslateTransform Y="80"/>
                                                    </TransformGroup>
                                                </TextBlock.RenderTransform>
                                            </TextBlock>

                                    </telerik:RadExpander.Header>
</telerik:RadExpander>

Hopefully someone has solved this....Thank you in advance,
           Jordan

[Ivan]

Hi Ender,

About the extra space around the rotated header text - this is a result of the layout rendering nature - for example you can observe the same behavior in the MS Toolkit's Expander. Fortunately, you are not so limited in the layout game - in the attached archive you can find an example where the vertical header is demonstrated. Please give it a try and let me know if you have more questions.

Kind regards,
Ivan
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[Laurian Angelescu]

I found this example to be more clean since it doesn't introduce hard-coded margin values and gives the desired functionality without any other tinkering.
http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/silverlight/expander/radexpander-header-orientation.aspx