Re: [Xsltforms-support] Support for rtl text input

[Steven P. <ste...@cw...>]

Winona,


We have discussed this in the WG, and resolved to add @dir to the Common 
set of attributes.


In the meantime, as Alain has already pointed out, you can legally use 
html:dir anywhere in XForms, as foreign namespaced attributes are allowable 
everywhere, and furthermore, you can use CSS properties for the same 
effect. For instance:


      *[class="ltr"] { unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr}
      *[class="rtl"] { unicode-bidi: embed; direction: rtl}
      *[class="lro"] { unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr}
      *[class="rlo"] { unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: rtl}


I show a quick example at https://cwi.nl/~steven/forms/tests/bidi.xhtml


Best wishes,


Steven

On Thursday 07 December 2023 17:11:16 (+01:00), Winona Salesky wrote:


Hi All,

I need to support both rtl and ltr text input in my forms. Reading up on 
this online, it sounds like the best way to do this is to include the 
following attribute on the input/textarea elements: dir="auto"


What do you think the best way to get this working in XSLTForms is? Edit 
the XSLTForms javascript? Write my own Javascript to amend the output? 
Something else? 


Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. 
-Winona