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The CSS writing modes module defines support for various international writing modes and their combinations, including left-to-right and right-to-left text ordering as well as horizontal and vertical orientations.

A writing mode in CSS is determined by the writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation properties defined in this module. It is defined primarily in terms of its inline base direction and block flow direction.

Some horizontal languages are left-to-right, including Latin and Indic scripts. Other horizontal languages are written right-to-left, including Hebrew and Arabic scripts. Sometimes text needs to be bidirectional, such as when mixing left-to-right and right-to-left scripts. Some languages can be written with a vertical orientation, for example, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) scripts.

The CSS writing module addresses the orientations of all writing modes. Other modules, such as the CSS ruby layout module, provide rendering models and formatting controls related to the display text annotations.

Reference

Properties

direction
glyph-orientation-vertical
text-combine-upright
text-orientation
unicode-bidi
writing-mode

Glossary and terms

Guides

Creating vertical form controls
- The article explains how to use the CSS writing-mode and direction properties to create and configure vertical form controls.
Introduction to writing mode systems
- A brief overview of writing mode systems and their directionalities.

CSS text module