LTR (Left To Right) is alocale property indicating that text is written from left to right. For example, theen-US locale (for US English) specifies left-to-right.

Most Western languages, as well as many others around the world, are written LTR.

The opposite of LTR,RTL (Right To Left) is used in other common languages, including Arabic (ar) and Hebrew (he).

See also

• Related glossary terms:
  • Locale
  • Localization
  • RTL
  • BiDi
• HTML global attributes
  • dir
  • lang
• CSS
  • :dir
  • direction
  • unicode-bidi
  • writing-mode