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W3C Recommendation

Summary

Global attribute. Specifies the element’s text directionality.

Applies to	?

dir = "ltr" or "rtl" or "auto"

Examples

For pages in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc. set the default direction of the page to right-to-left by including dir in the html tag.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ar" dir="rtl">
<head>
...

View live exampleTo make the exclamation mark appear to the left of the citation, surround the citation with markup and add a dir attribute.

HTML

<p>The title is "<span dir="rtl" lang="ar" xml:lang="ar">مفتاح معايير الويب!</span>" in Arabic.</p>

Notes

Remarks

Unless explicitly set, the dir property has no return value when accessed in script. The property does not affect alphanumeric characters in Latin documents. These characters always render ltr. However, the property does affect punctuation characters in Latin documents. For example, punctuation marks such as periods and question marks render to the left of a sentence when the dir property is set to rtl. The real benefit of this attribute is when using rtl languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. These can be some of the most challenging languages to write HTML with especially because html in itself is a left-to-right programming language.

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Syntax

Compatibility

Desktop

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	?	?	?	?	?

Mobile

Feature	Android	BlackBerry	Chrome for mobile	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Mobile	Opera Mobile	Opera Mini	Safari Mobile
Basic support	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

a
abbr
acronym
address
area
b
bdo
big
blockQuote
body
button
caption
center
cite
code
col
colGroup
custom
dd
del
dfn
dir
div
dl
dt
em
embed
fieldSet
font
form
hn
html
i
img
input type=button
input type=checkbox
input type=file
input type=image
input type=password
input type=radio
input type=reset
input type=submit
input type=text
ins
kbd
label
legend
li
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map
marquee
menu
noBR
object
ol
optGroup
option
p
plainText
pre
q
rt
ruby
s
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select
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table
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textArea
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th
tHead
tr
tt
u
ul
var
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This article contains content originally from external sources.

Portions of this content come from the Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]

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