Right-to-Left Support
Right-to-left text direction support in Foundation allows you to easily switch text direction for all components.
Setup
Foundation was built to support right-to-left text direction out of the box, but you'll need to make a couple of adjustments to your markup and Sass to get everything up and running.
Markup Changes for Right-to-Left Languages
You'll need to make a few changes to your markup to get the Javascript components working nice and smooth. In the html tag, you'll need to add a dir attribute with a value of rtl. Here's what your html tag should look like:
HTML
<!-- This example is for a right-to-left Arabic layout -->
<html class="no-js" lang="ar" dir="rtl">Change the Language Too
You'll need to change your lang attribute value to match your language. Here's a handy list of common right-to-left languages and their html codes:
- Arabic: ar
- Chinese: zh
- Farsi: fa
- Hebrew: he, iw
- Japanese: ja
- Urdu: ur
- Yiddish: yi, ji
A Single Sass Adjustment
We made it really easy to switch the entire Foundation grid to right-to-left by changing the $text-direction Sass variable. Here's what the variable should look like:
Sass
$text-direction: rtl;By changing this single variable, the entire grid and all the Foundation components will be switched to right-to-left orientation.
Using CSS
If you prefer vanilla CSS, use the customizer to download Foundation and get right-to-left support. Your download should be ready to use without any of the steps mentioned above.