Thedirection CSS property sets the direction of text, table columns, and horizontal overflow. Usertl for languages written from right to left (like Hebrew or Arabic), andltr for those written from left to right (like English and most other languages).

Интерактивный пример

direction: ltr;

direction: rtl;

<section>  <div>    <div>1</div>    <div>2</div>    <div>3</div>    <div>4</div>  </div></section>

#example-element {  border: 1px solid #c5c5c5;  padding: 0.75em;  width: 80%;  max-height: 300px;  display: flex;}#example-element > div {  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.2);  border: 3px solid blue;  margin: 10px;  flex: 1;}

Заметьте, что направление текста обычно задано в документе (т.е. с помощьюHTML'sdir attribute), а не посредством прямого использования свойстваdirection.

The property sets the base text direction of block-level elements and the direction of embeddings created by theunicode-bidi property. It also sets the default alignment of text, block-level elements, and the direction that cells flow within a table row.

Unlike thedir attribute in HTML, thedirection 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.

Thedirection andunicode-bidi properties are the two only properties which are not affected by theall 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 thedirection property to have any effect on inline-level elements, theunicode-bidi property's value must beembed oroverride.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

direction =
ltr|
rtl

Examples

Setting right-to-left direction

blockquote {  direction: rtl;}

Спецификации

Совместимость с браузерами

Смотрите также

• unicode-bidi
• writing-mode