A <textarea>
is an HTML element used to capture multiline user input. By default, it's direction is either right to left
or left to right
. But what if we want each paragraph to have it's own direction. This is very useful when the text is a mix of multiple languages. For example: Kurdish and English.
I asked the quesiton on Twitter and my good friend Akam Foad came to the rescue:
have you tested applying
— Akam Foad (@akamfoad) January 13, 2022unicode-bidi: plaintext
on textarea?https://t.co/UC8A0ZKYKj
It turns out, that you can easily support this by specifying unicode-bidi: plaintext
in the styles of the <textarea>
<textarea style="unicode-bidi:plaintext"></textarea>
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