Document: dir property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

See full compatibility

The Document.dir property is a string representing the directionality of the text of the document, whether left to right (default) or right to left. Possible values are 'rtl', right to left, and 'ltr', left to right.

Value

A string.

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-document-dir

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`dir`	Chrome – Partial support Chrome 1 – 35 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Chrome – Full support Chrome 36 (Release date: 2014-07-16) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09) footnote footnote Incorrect behavior before Firefox 23.	Opera – Partial support Opera 12.1 – 50 (Release date: 2012-11-20) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Opera – Full support Opera 51 (Release date: 2018-02-07) footnote Full support	Safari – Partial support Safari 1 – 10 (Release date: 2003-06-23) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Safari – Full support Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Partial support Chrome Android 18 – 35 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 36 (Release date: 2014-07-16) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29) footnote footnote Incorrect behavior before Firefox for Android 23.	Opera Android – Partial support Opera Android 12.1 – 46 (Release date: 2012-10-09) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 47 (Release date: 2018-07-23) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Partial support Safari on iOS 1 – 10 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Partial support Samsung Internet 1 – 2.1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 3 (Release date: 2015-04-10) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Partial support WebView Android 4.4 – 4.4.3 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 37 (Release date: 2014-09-03) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Partial support WebView on iOS 1 – 10 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support

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Document: dir property

Value

Specifications

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