# Recommended way to handle RTL mixed with LTR languages

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**Created:** [24.Январь.2018 17:24:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-handle-rtl-mixed-with-ltr-languages/78894 "2018-01-24T17:24:26Z")\
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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 ?

> [@Support RTL blocks for LTR-layout website and vice versa](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-rtl-blocks-for-ltr-layout-website-and-vice-versa/48599):
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> 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: \<div dir="rtl"\> … \</div\> 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 ?

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