direction
Sets the reading order of the object.
The property does not affect alphanumeric characters in documents that read from left to right. These characters always render ltr. However, the property does affect punctuation characters in documents that read from left to right.
The property pertains only to the directional flow of the content of an element. It has no effect on properties such as left, right, margin-left, or margin-right. The margin-left property, for example, sets the width of the margin on the left side of the document regardless of the value of the direction property.
The following example demonstrates how to set and retrieve the value of the direction property. When the user sets the value of the direction property of a DIV element, the value of the property is retrieved in a SPAN element:
<html>
<head><script>
function fnSwitch()
{
odiv.style.direction = event.srcElement.innerText;
Dirspan.innerText = odiv.style.direction;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>direction Property Sample</h1>
<h2>direction:
<span id="Dirspan" style="color:red"></span>
</h2>
[ <a href="#" onclick=fnSwitch()>ltr</a> | <a href="#"
onclick=fnSwitch()>rtl</a> | <a href="#" onclick=fnSwitch()>inherit</a> ]</p>
<div id="odiv">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy yellow dog. The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy yellow dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy yellow
dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy yellow dog. The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy yellow dog.</div>
</body>
</html>
This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 2 (CSS2).
a, abbr, acronym, address, b, bdo, big, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, col, colgroup, custom, dd, defaults, del, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, embed, fieldset, font, form, hn, i, img, input type=button, input type=checkbox, input type=file, input type=image, input type=password, input type=radio, input type=reset, input type=submit, input type=text, ins, li, object, ol, option, p, q, rt, ruby, s, select, span, sub, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var, xmp
