Text Direction and CSS

Just wanted to point out that the CSS2 text-direction
property doesn't cover vertical languages like Japanese
(lines go top to bottom, next line to the left).

Perhaps it should be extended:

text-direction:  inherit | ltr | rtl vertical?

If vertical is specified, text flows top-to-bottom, then the
specified direction, e.g. Japanese would be rtl vertical.

Extending text-direction to cover vertical text would also
be nice for sign-like effects.

Received on Tuesday, 10 August 1999 14:54:34 UTC