Name
direction — NN n/a IE n/a CSS 2
Synopsis
Inherited: Yes
Sets the direction of flow of inline portions of content (such as
text) and the order in which table cells are filled along a row.
Analogous to the DIR attribute of most elements,
the direction style attribute lets you override the browser’s
default rendering direction for other languages or special content.
CSS Syntax
direction: ltr | rtl | ltr-override | rtl-override
Value
Any of the four constants. The value ltr stands
for left-to-right; rtl stands for right-to-left.
The override values let you override the direction
that is specified from the browser’s adherence to a standard
Unicode bidirectional algorithm.
Initial Value
rtl
Applies To
All elements.
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