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verydeepwater · 03-13-2015, 02:10 PM

Thank you very much, Odedta. I am using EPUB 3. I was trying to add the direction rule to the stylesheet, but it looks as though I should add it to the html. The majority of the text is in English, so I should add dir="rtl" to all the Arabic paragraphs and add dir="ltr" to the <html... at the top as you have shown. And forget about the stylesheet. This is what I needed to know, thanks.

[QUOTE=odedta;3063758]dir="rtl" or dir="ltr" is the correct form of telling the device of the text direction in an EPUB3. In EPUB2 you should use CSS rule "direction:rtl;".

You should use the dir="rtl" attribute if the majority of the text on that page is in Arabic, for all the English paragraphs you add dir="ltr". e.g.

[PHP]<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="rtl" lang="ar" xml:lang="ar">

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verydeepwater Member Posts: 86 Karma: 12586 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: Ipad and Kindle Fire	Thank you very much, Odedta. I am using EPUB 3. I was trying to add the direction rule to the stylesheet, but it looks as though I should add it to the html. The majority of the text is in English, so I should add dir="rtl" to all the Arabic paragraphs and add dir="ltr" to the <html... at the top as you have shown. And forget about the stylesheet. This is what I needed to know, thanks. [QUOTE=odedta;3063758]dir="rtl" or dir="ltr" is the correct form of telling the device of the text direction in an EPUB3. In EPUB2 you should use CSS rule "direction:rtl;". You should use the dir="rtl" attribute if the majority of the text on that page is in Arabic, for all the English paragraphs you add dir="ltr". e.g. [PHP]<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="rtl" lang="ar" xml:lang="ar"> Last edited by verydeepwater; 03-13-2015 at 02:12 PM.