The forum we are running is mainly in english but we have some pages recently that are RTL (arabic) what is the recommended way to get a specific topic to have RTL direction is this the only posibility ? [image] Support RTL blocks for LTR-layout website and vice versa Feature Users would like sometimes to write both RTL and LTR text in one single post. Right now, the direction of everything in the website (including text editor and posted posts) depends on the layout of the language used. Arabic means RTL and English means LTR. It would be helpful if one can choose that he wants these paragraphs to be opposite the direction of the website. I tried: … to force a direction change since HTML is supported, but that didn’t do anything, even if i… is this a plugin that can handle the tags [text-direction=rtl] [/text-direction] any other way ?

so the plugin is not really supported ? should it be avoided ? will it cause trouble if you solution comes out ? any ETA on your solution ?

I haven’t looked at that plugin in a while. I wouldn’t recommend using it. For now, the best way to get RTL content to display correctly when a LTR locale is being used is to wrap the content in tags. Doing this won’t cause any trouble when support for mixed text direction is added. The ETA for that feature is early next week.

Thanks for the answer I tried both and inside a post but I end up with in both cases So its strips out the attributes, how can I tell discourse to not strip those attributes ? is there a setting ?

[image] GiorgosK: I tried both and inside a post but I end up with in both cases Sorry, the dir attribute is only whitelisted for tags. this is a test will work: There is no setting to add attributes to the Discourse whitelist. It can be done through a plugin. That’s what the plugin that you linked to is doing.

Great job! I’ve been looking for this feature. Is it automatic? like suggested here? [image] Set direction of text depending on text itself Feature Facebook has it ! [image] When Writing with an RTL language the ticker goes to the other way which gives a very intuitive experience. I need this for my community because we are bilingual. Thanks Discourse … Love Or is it a button to change the direction of text?

Any reason we don’t enforce dir="auto" ? [image] dir HTML global attribute - HTML | MDN The dir global attribute is an enumerated attribute that indicates the directionality of the element's text.

[image] j.jaffeux: Any reason we don’t enforce dir=“auto” ? It’s doesn’t get inherited, so it would need to be applied to every element in a cooked post. Also, Internet Explorer doesn’t support it. If we’re not concerned about supporting IE, there are places in the code that it would be useful (titles, category descriptions, etc.), but it’s easy enough to add a helper function that sets the direction of those elements based on their text content. [image] parisa: Is it automatic? It automatically applies the correct direction to text in the preview window, cooked posts, titles etc. It sets the direction of text fields based on the text that is entered. It doesn’t automatically set the direction of the composer’s textarea. To make it easier to type, you can switch the direction of the textarea by clicking a button. Changing the textarea’s direction doesn’t affect its final output. It will be formatted correctly regardless of the direction the textarea is set to. Facebook’s editor handles text direction very well. They can do this because their editor is using contenteditable. This lets them set the text direction on individual elements in the editor. It’s possible to get behaviour similar to this by adding the attribute dir="auto"to the composer’s textarea, but doing that has some strange side effects.

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We are going to be adding a site setting for supporting mixed text direction very soon. I’m working on it now.

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