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data.BaseTextDirection type

The direction of some bidirectional text, which describes how it should be wrapped with Unicode Control Characters (UCC).

Signature:

type BaseTextDirection = 'ltr' | 'rtl' | 'contextual' | 'inherit';

Introduced: version 1.0

Remarks

The possible values for the direction are:

contextual - Text is surrounded with LRE/RLE/PDF characters, depending on its contents. Text that looks to be left-to-right is surrounded with LRE-PDF, and text that looks to be right-to-left is surrounded with RLE-PDF.

ltr - Text is surrounded with LRE-PDF, irrespective of the text contents.

rtl - Text is surrounded with RLE-PDF, irrespective of the text contents.

inherit - Text is not marked up at all, and we rely on inherited browser behavior.