Dir="auto" in composer

Falco · August 23, 2023, 4:12pm

Continuing the discussion from What does the support mixed text direction setting do?:

Should we deprecate this setting, composer button and add dir="auto" by default in our text areas? IE is not a blocker anymore.

david · August 23, 2023, 4:16pm

This setting also affects non-textarea things. e.g. it is used to apply dir= to paragraphs/quotes in posts:

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/c01a461ca8bc3a67f690c81d1e6a9c3bcf1c29ab/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/instance-initializers/post-decorations.js#L77-L81


      
          if (siteSettings.support_mixed_text_direction) {
            api.decorateCookedElement(setTextDirections, {
              id: "discourse-text-direction",
            });
          }

And topic titles:

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/c01a461ca8bc3a67f690c81d1e6a9c3bcf1c29ab/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/models/post.js#L118-L118


      
          return fancyTitle(title, this.siteSettings.support_mixed_text_direction);

and more.

Can we use dir="auto" for all these things now?

Falco · August 23, 2023, 4:51pm

Makes sense, users need this everywhere they input text:

Composer textarea
Composer preview
Topic titles in topics
Topic titles in lists
Posts in topics
Bio in usercard / profile
Topic “previews” in topics lists