KansukeKojima 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2008 Description I find that it is often difficult to write a sentence backwards, but thanks to HTML, I can now complete this task in only a few seconds. Now the only problem is it is very difficult to read... Try It Out Welcome to one of the most useless functions of HTML. The tags enable you to write a sentence backwards. The code is quite simple. <bdo dir="rtl">I find that it is often difficult to write a sentence backwards, but thanks to HTML, I can now complete this task in only a few seconds. Now the only problem is it is very difficult to read...</bdo> Well there you go. The only thing you may forget is that you need the dir="rtl" part of the tag. Otherwise, your browser won't know which way to output the text. By the way, there are only two directions I am aware of: rtl (right to left, backwards), and ltr (left to right, normal). I'm not sure if you'll have any real use for it, but its fairly cool anyways. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlhaslip 4 Report post Posted January 23, 2008 Some languages use a Right to Left for their characters. Hebrew is an example, but I am sure there are others.Usually, the language will also require a character set other than the one you might normally use. UTF-8 is a character set which handles many of the internationalizations. Check it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbez 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2008 What is this useful for exactly? I see no purpose for this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KansukeKojima 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2008 What is this useful for exactly? I see no purpose for this.Did I ever say it was useful... it's just kind of cool, but useles... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hippiman 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2008 That's pretty sweet. That's pretty weird that they had to come up with a tag like that, though. If I ever really needed to do something like that, I probably just would have made a script or something, though. I think there are at least a couple useless tags that could be replaced just because of css and javascript. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fffanatics 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2008 It is not useless if you write a site that has multiple languages of it. If you are targeting a hewbrew audience like have a religious document on your site in hewbrew or for any other reason, you would use this to display hewbrew text in the correct order / make sure that it is correct to their standards. Just because your language is ltr does not mean all are. Therefore, when critquing a language, you need to make sure you look at all possibilities since html is not only meant for western users. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anachro 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2008 yeah I learnt about this awhile ago. I figure the only thing it would be good for would be annoying hacker stuff, or fake satanic website, or CHEAT CODES Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KansukeKojima 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2008 Ahh, yes, other languages would be a good cause for that, makes sense... Kind of forgot about that one a little bit...As far as english is concerned, it's basically useless... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
truefusion 3 Report post Posted January 29, 2008 If you know how to manipulate this, you could probably get the scroll bar on the left side of the browser while maintaining the left-to-right direction of the text. That would be somewhat interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbez 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2008 Did I ever say it was useful... it's just kind of cool, but useles...I just wanted to know where I should be using this... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KansukeKojima 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2008 If you know how to manipulate this, you could probably get the scroll bar on the left side of the browser while maintaining the left-to-right direction of the text. That would be somewhat interesting.Hmmm... Sounds interesting... Unfortuneately, I've got no clue how to do it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
truefusion 3 Report post Posted January 30, 2008 Hmmm... Sounds interesting... Unfortuneately, I've got no clue how to do it...You can probably pull it off like this:body {direction: rtl;}body * {direction: ltr !important;}I remember running into a website like over, i think, 4 years ago that had the scrollbar on the left side. Took me a while to figure out what attribute they used and where. Also, i'm not quite sure if this CSS will work in all browsers, if any; i haven't tested it out in any. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FLaKes 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2008 Nice little trick. While it may not be really usefull, it certainly looks like fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunzoje 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2008 By the way, what's BDO tag? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
