fantasai wrote: > Patrick Aljord wrote: >> hey all, >> >> My site in Arabic from right to left works great. But if I want to use >> some ltr strings in English, it messes up with my parenthesis like in >> this list: >> >> http://www.democralist.com/lists/show/61 >> >> Check out the first two items of the list, the parenthesis are wrong. >> The problem is that the list is generated from the database so there >> is no way to guess if it's displaying arabic rtl or english ltr. Any >> idea how to solve this? > > Since your site is in Arabic, you should add dir="rtl" to the <html> element. > Like this: > > <html dir="rtl"> > > That should solve most of your bidi problems.
Err, but it won't solve the one right there. For that you can use the right-to-left mark, ‏ on either side of the Latin, like this: 2. ‏algora‏ (100) This breaks up the Latin bits so they don't connect into one long left-to-right text run. ~fantasai ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
