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

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-document-dir

Browser compatibility

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See also

  • dir global attribute