HTMLElement: dir property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLElement.dir
property indicates the text writing directionality of the content of the current element. It reflects the element's dir
attribute.
Note that if the dir
attribute is unspecified, the element itself may still inherit directionality from its parent. However, that inherited directionality is not reflected by this property's value.
The text writing directionality of an element is which direction that text goes (for support of different language systems). Arabic languages and Hebrew are typical languages using the RTL directionality.
Value
Examples
js
const para = document.getElementById("para1");
para.dir = "rtl";
// change the text direction on a paragraph identified as "para1"
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-dir |
Browser compatibility
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See also
document.dir
- HTML
dir
global attribute - CSS
direction
property - CSS
:dir
pseudo-class