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Asked: 2026-05-19T02:58:20+00:00

How can i regularise my right to left language where it is Arabic language.

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How can i regularise my right to left language where it is Arabic language. So it must start from right to left including all scroll bar, input box, upload whole layout is actually required to be shown as right to left.

This is my layout:

<?= $this->doctype();// xhtml = strict ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <?php echo $this->headTitle(); ?>
    <?php echo $this->headMeta(); ?>
    <?php echo $this->headScript(); ?>
    <?php echo $this->headLink()->prependStylesheet('/css/production.css'); ?>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/img/pageicon.png" type="image/x-icon" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="We care Arab Page"      href="/rss.xml" />
</head>
<body>
!!!!!! everything need right to left, where default page is english (left to right).!!!!!
</body>
</html>

Please advise ? 🙂

Thanks & Regards

Follow up:

Dont see any differences for direction changing. Image does not flip, all the rest flip exactly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I do most of my web sites in arabic language and i don’t have to depend in dir="RTL" all the time
    for example :
    on every project i work with ,

    1. i use 960 grid + jQuery + ZF
    2. I used to float most of my element
      to the right for div , p , table
      , em , h1 ... h6 , form input
      and some times i add style for p tag
      like this : directtion:RTL to make
      thing align correctly
    3. I am used to set chartset for any
      part of the application to UTF8 form the view to the database … etc

    hopefully i didn’t miss any thing
    and Good luck

    update

    let’s take the facebook.com arabic page as an example , it doesn’t have code like yours

    < html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="ar" dir="RTL" > ,

    the body tage has style for direction:RTL you would see some of the form elements flipped

    but notice the world image , it didn’t flip to the left but in your case all the element would flip if you removed this dir='rtl' attribute

    what i meant to say : control your element on the page

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