On Wed, Nov 20, 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote about "Re: Kword not ready for [Hebrew]
prime time yet":
> Herouth wrote:
>
> >Anyways, standard-compliant HTML should NOT use DIR=RTL tags. This is a
> >stylesheet issue. It should have a CLASS="rightToLeft" tag, or something
> like
> >that, and have a stylesheet containing "direction: rtl" for that class.
> >Alternatively it should have a STYLE="direction: rtl" attribute.
>
> I beg to differ. DIR=RTL (by the way, it is an attribute, not a tag) is
> defined in HTML 4, so anyone using it *is* standard-compliant. You may
I agree, though I'm by no means a standards scholar.
I usually use the same stylesheet for both Hebrew and English, with several
options changed according to whether or not the BODY tag carries the
DIR=RTL attribute or not (in other words, my English documents have
<BODY>, my Hebrew documents have <BODY DIR=RTL>.
Incidentally, my Hebrew documents also have
<HTML DIR=RTL lang="he">
and
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-8-i">
For example, to have a different background for Hebrew and English documents,
I use something like this in my homepage's stylesheet:
BODY {
background: url("bg-120.GIF") repeat-y left;
}
BODY[dir=rtl] {
background: url("bg-120-rtl.GIF") repeat-y right;
}
And I can make some classes look slightly different in Hebrew, for
example:
.funkymenu {
float:left;
margin-left: -135px;
margin-right: 4px;
...
}
BODY[dir=rtl] > .funkymenu {
float:right;
margin-right: -135px;
margin-left:4px
}
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