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CSS and Arabisation

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Mariootje

Mariootje

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Aug 10, 2001
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Hai there,

I am working on a website that should have an English and an Arabic version. The English version is working out ok, but I have a problem when converting the Eglish version into Arabic.

My HTML-tag looks either like:
<html lang="en" dir="ltr"> --> English
or
<html lang="en" dir="rtl"> --> Arabic

The site 'flips' ok, but because of my css, my tables still lines out ltr and this is not what I want.

Does anyone know of a possibility to solve this problem?

I don't think that the 'unicode-bidi' property can be of help?

A possible solution would be to create an additional Arabic style sheet, but I do not prefer this, because I don't want to maintain an extra style sheet.

Hope to hear from you, regards,
Mario
 
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The guys at W3 suggest you don't use CSS for this kinda thing:


Initially I was thinking you could just restyle it into DIV blocks - and then let the body direction take over... but it depends so much on the kind of data you have (since you could merely be using the tables for layout). In the end I have no answer at this stage - but maybe you could look to the link above and see if you can work with it somehow.

Cheers,
Jeff

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Thanks Jeff,

You are right that I am merely using tables for layout. I'll go and have a look at your link.

Cheers,
Mario
 
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