Amaze your friends, confuse your enemies, write secret messages! Someday, that is :-(
The CSS direction property allows you to declare which direction your text goes. Direction is mostly for fun even though it has serious applications if you work with other languages.
The form for a direction declaration is:
direction: value
value may be ltr (left to right) or rtl (right to left). ltr is the default.
WebTV has no support for this W3C CSS 2 specification at this time. None, nada, nil, zilch, a big goose egg, zero.
MSIE 6.0, Netscape 7.2 and Firefox (Mozilla) move the sentence to the right side of the page and move the period to the front of a sentence. See the screenshots below.
So basically, direction has no support at this time, but I didn't know that until I used it.
/* right-to-left text */
.backwards { direction: rtl }
<p class="backwards">
This sentence should appear backwards.
</p>
.sdrawkcab raeppa dluohs ecnetnes shiT
But actually appears as:This sentence should appear backwards.
PC Screenshot (white page)
PC Screenshot (black page)
Call or write to WebTV and demand that they support direction in the next upgrade. Or not.
Happy coding!
Gnubee
