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 …

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 <div dir="rtl"></div> tags. Doing this won’t cause any trouble when support for mixed text direction is …

Thanks for the answer I tried both <p class="rtl"></p> and <p dir="rtl"></p> inside a post but I end up with <p></p> 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 <p class=“rtl”></p> and <p dir=“rtl”></p> inside a post but I end up with <p></p> in both cases Sorry, the dir attribute is only whitelisted for <div> tags. <div dir="rtl">this is a test</div> will work: There is no setting to add attributes to the Discourse w…

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 …

Any reason we don’t enforce dir="auto" ? [image] dir - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | 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 usefu…

It is available in the master branch now. Enable it by selecting the support_mixed_text_direction setting. I’ll write a topic about it soon. There are a few improvements that could be made to the way it’s setting the text direction for topics. The biggest problem I’m seeing with it is that username…

Manière recommandée de gérer le RTL mélangé avec des langues LTR

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parisa (Pari) Janvier 25, 2018, 8:13 8

Great job! I’ve been looking for this feature. Is it automatic? like suggested here?

Or is it a button to change the direction of text?

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Manière recommandée de gérer le RTL mélangé avec des langues LTR

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