[thelist] Direction of Text
Michiel Trimpe
M.B.Trimpe at student.tue.nl
Mon May 27 19:14:00 CDT 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
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