Web platform features explorer - Layout direction override

Web platform features explorer

The unicode-bidi and direction CSS properties override the Unicode layout algorithm. They are intended for Document Type Definition (DTD) designers. For HTML documents, you should use the dir global HTML attribute and <bdo> HTML element instead.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2022-07-15)

MDN documentation

Specifications

CSS Writing Modes Level 4 (#direction), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).
CSS Writing Modes Level 4 (#unicode-bidi), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).

Browser support

Chrome 48 Released on 2016-01-20
Chrome Android 48 Released on 2016-01-26
Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
Firefox 50 Released on 2016-11-15
Firefox for Android 50 Released on 2016-11-15
Safari 11 Released on 2017-09-19
Safari on iOS 11 Released on 2017-09-19

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