Let’s see a more detailed example to explore how to flip a design from LTR to RTL. However, the CSSWG recommends that the direction should be defined on the html root element to ensure the correct bidirectional layout in the absence of CSS. In addition to setting the dir=rtl attribute on the HTML element, we may also add direction: rtl as a CSS style.element RTL Styling - Basic Example by Ahmad Shadeed ( CodePen.
According to the HTML specification:Īuthors are urged to only use this value as a last resort when the direction of the text is truly unknown, and no better server-side heuristic can be applied. It’s worth mentioning that there is a dir="auto" attribute, which switches the direction automatically based on the content parsed. When the dir is changed, the following elements should flip automatically: headings, paragraphs, links, images, and form elements.
To switch a document’s language direction, you will need to add the dir attribute to the root element. Luckily, the browser did all of the work for this simple example. Notice for the RTL section, the text reads from right to left, which is the opposite of the LTR text. Below is a basic example to show the difference between an LTR and an RTL layout. If you check the browser of your choice and inspect the browser’s default agent styles for the html element, you will notice that ltr is the default value for the dir (or “direction”) property. The default page direction in CSS is LTR. Arabic (al-Arabiyyah, pronounced /al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabiː/) is my native language, and I sometimes build websites that need to support both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) styles. Over 292 million people around the world speak Arabic as their first language. Do you like my content? You can support and buy me a coffee.
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