CSS Writing Modes & Direction
CSS Writing Modes & Direction — Control text direction and layout with writing-mode, direction, text-orientation, and unicode-bidi for multilingual support. The guide walks through Understanding Writing Modes, The direction Property, text-orientation, unicode-bidi and Isolation, Practical Multilingual Patterns. CSS writing modes define the direction in which text flows on the page. While most web content is horizontal left-to-right, many languages use different writing directions. CSS provides properties to handle these variations. The writing-mode property has three values: .horizontal { writing-mode: horizontal-tb; } /* Default: top to bottom, left to right */ .vertical-lr { writing-mode: vertical-lr; } /* Vertical… The direction property sets the base text direction: .ltr { direction: ltr; } /* Left to right (default for English) */ .rtl { direction: rtl; } /* Right to left (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) */ Unlike the HTML dir attribute, direction only controls text direction and the direction of inline elements. It does NOT change the block direction or writing mode.…