ok thanx, just realized that what I wanted was to display:
(99) test
instead of
test (99)
On 4/24/07, Jukka K. Korpela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Patrick Aljord wrote:
>
> > I trying to write this:
> > <div style="direction:rtl">test (99)</div>
> >
> > but this is what appears:
> >
> > (test (99
>
> At the character level, what appears is
> )test (99
> but the leftmost character ")" is displayed using a mirrored glyph.
> You can see this if you copy the leftmost character into a plain text file
> using copy and paste.
>
> The appearance is what you asked for by using direction:rtl. By the
> Unicode bidirectional algorithm (which is what the definition of the
> direction property refers to), the writing direction is primarily
> determined by the inherent directionality of characters. The directionally
> neutral characters " " and "(" follow the directionality of surrounding
> characters, which is left to to right. However, the last character ")" is
> not trapped between characters with left to right directionality, so the
> browsers does just what you asked: treats it with right to left
> directionality. This means that it will be placed to the left of the
> preceding text and mirrored.
>
> Appending a directionally neutral punctuation character like "." would not
> change this. It would be placed to the left of the preceding character.
> But if you append a character with inherent left to right directionality,
> like a Latin letter or a common (European) digit, things would change.
> There is also an invisible control character for the purpose, the left to
> right mark (LRM, U+200E), representable in HTML as ‎ among other
> things.
>
> > any idea how I could make it look like:
> >
> > test (99)?
>
> Well, you could simply leave out the setting direction:rtl. If the
> enclosing element has direction:rtl, then you would need to explicitly
> set direction:ltr to prevent inheritance.
>
> In any case, if you want text to be rendered left to right, you set (or
> default) the direction property to the value ltr.
>
> What did you expect the direction:rtl setting to affect, and why did you
> use it? If you just want alignment to the right (which is a default side
> effect of direction:rtl), set it explicitly, using text-align: right.
>
> --
> Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
>
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