Name

DIR — NN n/a IE n/a HTML 4

Synopsis

DIR=”direction"

Optional

The direction of character rendering for the element’s text when the characters are not governed by inherent directionality according to the Unicode standard. Character rendering is either left-to-right or right-to-left. This attribute is usually set in concert with the LANG attribute; it must be used to specify a character rendering direction that overrides the current direction.

Example

<A LANG="ar" DIR="rtl">Some Unicode Arabic text characters here</A>

Value

ltr | rtl (case insensitive)

Default

ltr

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