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HTMLElement: dir property - Web APIs | MDN
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HTMLElement: dir property
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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 HTMLElement.dir property indicates the text writing directionality of the content of the current element. It reflects the element's dir attribute.
Note that if the dir attribute is unspecified, the element itself may still inherit directionality from its parent. However, that inherited directionality is not reflected by this property's value.
The text writing directionality of an element is which direction that text goes (for support of different language systems). Arabic languages and Hebrew are typical languages using the RTL directionality.
Value
One of the following:
Examples
js
const para = document.getElementById("para1");
para.dir = "rtl";
// change the text direction on a paragraph identified as "para1"
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # dom-dir |
Browser compatibility
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See also
document.dir- HTML
dirglobal attribute - CSS
directionproperty - CSS
:dirpseudo-class