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Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien

"The Ultimate CSS Reference"

The values normal,
nowrap, and pre behave like pre-wrap on textarea elements.
Opera 9.2 and prior versions don??™t support the value pre-line. The values normal
and pre behave like pre-wrap on textarea elements. The value nowrap behaves
like pre-line on textarea elements.
343 Typographical Properties
direction
direction: { ltr | rtl | inherit } ;
This property specifies the following:
?–  the base writing direction of blocks
?–  the direction of embeddings and
overrides??”see unicode-bidi
(p. 344)??”for the Unicode
bidirectional algorithm
?–  the direction of table column layout
?–  the direction of horizontal overflow
?–  the position of an incomplete last
line in a block, when the text-align property has the value justify
Example
This style rule causes the columns in tables
belonging to the "arabic" class to be laid
out from right to left:
table.arabic {
direction: rtl;
}
For the direction property to affect content reordering in inline elements, the
unicode-bidi property must be set to embed or override.


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