Question

I am using a right-to-left language with dir='rtl' on the body element.

So the whole page flows as it should from right to left.

For some reason alt text within images are displayed backwards.

Here’s a jsFiddle.

Any simple solution?

Answer 1

This is a bug in Chromium, reported in 2010 as RTL: Hebrew alt text rendered left-to-right when images disabled, with apparently no progress.

By the specifications, text entirely in Hebrew letters is to be displayed right to left independently of dir attribute settings. In some browsers, dir=rtl helps, but not here. For some reason, alt text rendering in Chrome does not apply directionality information the same ways as normal text rendering does – after all, it probably uses separate routines internally. Using control characters for directionality inside the attribute value does not help.