The dir Property

The dir Property

The dir property gives the direction of text in text-oriented HTML components , and can be set to "rtl" (right to left) or "ltr" (left to right) for various languages. You can see the support for this property in Table 5.18.

Table 5.18. The dir Property

Property	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
dir				x				x	x	x
	Read/Write
	Type: String

Tip

If you want to use the dir property in the Internet Explorer, you may have to download an add-in component named Microsoft Uniscribe. You can find more information at www.microsoft.com/OpenType/developers/ uniscribe /intro.htm.