text-direction

Get the text direction from the browser.


Keywords
ltr, rtl, i18n
License
MIT
Install
npm install text-direction@1.4.1

Documentation

text-direction

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Get the text direction from an element node.

Installation

npm install text-direction

Usage

    import textDirection from "text-direction";
    // Or using a CDN without installation
    import textDirection from "https://unpkg.com/text-direction";

Then, you can start to use it on your code :

    const nodeDirection = textDirection(myNode); // With a node as argument for its specific direction
    const globalDirection = textDirection(); // Without argument to target <body>

Returned value are :

  • "ltr" if direction is right-to-left
  • "rtl" if direction is left-to-right
  • "" if the element specified has no style (not attached to a DOM)

License

MIT