The direction property may be set to indicate a left to right or right to left parsing direction.

This is part of the localization support and represents the contents of the DIR="..." tag attribute.

If you assign a value to this property it is case-sensitive and must be one of the following:

• ltr

• rtl

• ltr-override

• rtl-override

This property works in conjunction with the lang property to control the direction of text flow.

The variations with the override modifier keyword are intended to force the direction even when the underlying language does not support it natively according to the Unicode rules.