Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/27/07 15:11

"macca" <ptmcnally@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Never worked with anything but English but I do know that text
> direction can be controlled with CSS e.g.
>
> p {
> direction:rtl;
>
> text-align:right
> }

That's so error-prone, it should be considered a bug, rather than a feature.
Browsers in languages that stream right-to-left already perform that
function.
So, if you use it the way you did, it'll switch the text back around the
wrong way.

Where that *is* useful is in proprietary HTML extensions, like
"<mymenu></mymenu>" which are not defined in the HTML/XHMTL spec.

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