Re[2]: [thelist] Direction of Text

Michiel Trimpe thelist at lists.evolt.org
Mon May 27 19:14:00 2002


Hello Joshua,

>> Hello Experts,
>> How can I change the direction of the text on a web page? By default it
>> is "left to right". I want to change it to "right to left". Do I have
>> anything to do with DOCTYPE or META Data for this purpose?
>> Thank you,

JO> Check out the dir attribute of the HTML tag.  I think the syntax is
JO> dir="rtl" or dir="ltr"

Or if you want to display a language that is originally written right
to left just use the unicode characters. That should work as well.

--
- michiel