CSS - direction


Description

The direction indicates the writing direction to be used in the rendering of an element.

Possible Values

  • ltr − element will be rendered from left to right.

  • rtl − element will be rendered from right to left.

Applies to

All the HTML elements.

DOM Syntax

object.style.direction = "ltr";

Example

Here is the example −

<html>
   <head>
   </head>

   <body>
      <p style = "direction:rtl;">
         Right-to-left rendering direction - Example
      </p>
      
      <p style = "direction:ltr;">
         Left-to-right rendering direction - Example
      </p>
   </body>
</html> 

This will produce following result −

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