Value:

lr-tb | rl-tb | tb-rl | lr | rl | tb | inherit

Initial:

lr-tb

Applies to:

<text> elements

Inherited:

yes

Percentages:

N/A

Media:

visual

Animatable:

no

Values have the following meanings:

lr-tb | lr

Sets the initial inline-progression-direction to left-to-right, as is common in most Latin-based documents. For most characters, the current text position is advanced from left to right after each glyph is rendered.

rl-tb | rl

Sets the initial inline-progression-direction to right-to-left, as is common in Arabic or Hebrew scripts.

tb-rl | tb

Sets the initial inline-progression-direction to top-to-bottom, as is common in some Asian scripts, such as Chinese and Japanese. Though hardly as frequent as horizontal, this type of vertical layout also occurs in Latin based documents, particularly in table column or row labels.