direction
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The direction
CSS property sets the direction of text, table columns, and horizontal overflow. Use rtl
for languages written from right to left (like Hebrew or Arabic), and ltr
for those written from left to right (like English and most other languages).
Интерактивный пример
Заметьте, что направление текста обычно задано в документе (т.е. с помощью HTML's dir
attribute), а не посредством прямого использования свойства direction
.
The property sets the base text direction of block-level elements and the direction of embeddings created by the unicode-bidi
property. It also sets the default alignment of text, block-level elements, and the direction that cells flow within a table row.
Unlike the dir
attribute in HTML, the direction
property is not inherited from table columns into table cells, since CSS inheritance follows the document tree, and table cells are inside of rows but not inside of columns.
The direction
and unicode-bidi
properties are the two only properties which are not affected by the all
shorthand property.
Syntax
/* Keyword values */
direction: ltr;
direction: rtl;
/* Global values */
direction: inherit;
direction: initial;
direction: unset;
Values
ltr
-
Text and other elements go from left to right. This is the default value.
rtl
-
Text and other elements go from right to left.
For the direction
property to have any effect on inline-level elements, the unicode-bidi
property's value must be embed
or override
.
Formal definition
Начальное значение | ltr |
---|---|
Применяется к | все элементы |
Наследуется | да |
Обработка значения | как указано |
Animation type | Not animatable |
Formal syntax
direction =
ltr |
rtl
Examples
Setting right-to-left direction
blockquote {
direction: rtl;
}
Спецификации
Specification |
---|
CSS Writing Modes Level 4 # direction |
Совместимость с браузерами
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