Titles placeholder in New topic is not RTL

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

will be fixed per:

New topic title input (#reply-title) remains LTR in RTL sites — fix still not effective (2026)

Yeah this is a tricky one, it is not solveable with CSS, we need a markup change. Specifically placing a direction auto when a field is empty give your LTR [image] So if the input is blank you get ltr. The fix I made here is to default to “rtl” in this case and swap to auto as soon as a letter is filled up. @Osama do you mind reviewing/merging? @david I had to leak a test helper into our code base to test this cleanly, but I assume this is the kind of stuff we will tree shake out even…