--- title: direction slug: Web/CSS/direction translation_of: Web/CSS/direction --- <div>{{CSSRef}}</div> <p><span class="seoSummary">The <strong><code>direction</code></strong> CSS property sets the direction of text, table columns, and horizontal overflow.</span> Use <code>rtl</code> for languages written from right to left (like Hebrew or Arabic), and <code>ltr</code> for those written from left to right (like English and most other languages).</p> <div>{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/css/direction.html")}}</div> <p>Заметьте, что направление текста обычно задано в документе (т.е. с помощью <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/dir">HTML's <code>dir</code> attribute</a>), а не посредством прямого использования свойства <code>direction</code>.</p> <p>The property sets the base text direction of block-level elements and the direction of embeddings created by the {{Cssxref("unicode-bidi")}} property. It also sets the default alignment of text, block-level elements, and the direction that cells flow within a table row.</p> <p>Unlike the <code>dir</code> attribute in HTML, the <code>direction</code> property is not inherited from table columns into table cells, since CSS inheritance follows the document tree, and table cells are inside of rows but not inside of columns.</p> <p>The <code>direction</code> and {{cssxref("unicode-bidi")}} properties are the two only properties which are not affected by the {{cssxref("all")}} shorthand property.</p> <h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2> <pre class="brush:css no-line-numbers notranslate">/* Keyword values */ direction: ltr; direction: rtl; /* Global values */ direction: inherit; direction: initial; direction: unset; </pre> <h3 id="Values">Values</h3> <dl> <dt><code>ltr</code></dt> <dd>Text and other elements go from left to right. This is the default value.</dd> <dt><code>rtl</code></dt> <dd>Text and other elements go from right to left.</dd> </dl> <p>For the <code>direction</code> property to have any effect on inline-level elements, the {{Cssxref("unicode-bidi")}} property's value must be <code>embed</code> or <code>override</code>.</p> <h2 id="Formal_definition">Formal definition</h2> <p>{{cssinfo}}</p> <h2 id="Formal_syntax">Formal syntax</h2> <pre class="syntaxbox notranslate">{{csssyntax}}</pre> <h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2> <h3 id="Setting_right-to-left_direction">Setting right-to-left direction</h3> <pre class="brush: css notranslate">blockquote { direction: rtl; } </pre> <h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2> <table class="standard-table"> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col">Specification</th> <th scope="col">Status</th> <th scope="col">Comment</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>{{SpecName('CSS3 Writing Modes', '#direction', 'direction')}}</td> <td>{{Spec2('CSS3 Writing Modes')}}</td> <td>No change.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>{{SpecName('CSS2.1', 'visuren.html#direction', 'direction')}}</td> <td>{{Spec2('CSS2.1')}}</td> <td>Initial definition.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="Browser_compatibility" name="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2> <div> <p>{{Compat("css.properties.direction")}}</p> </div> <h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>{{Cssxref("unicode-bidi")}}</li> <li>{{Cssxref("writing-mode")}}</li> </ul>