Document: 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 Document.dir
property is a string
representing the directionality of the text of the document, whether left to right
(default) or right to left. Possible values are 'rtl'
, right to left, and
'ltr'
, left to right.
Value
A string.
Specifications
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HTML # dom-document-dir |
Browser compatibility
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See also
dir
global attribute