Right to left Text HTML input

For my website, i need to provide arabic support. Part of it is to provide input textboxes where when user types in, the new characters have to be appended to the left and the text has to be right aligned.

setting the css property to

text-align:right

didn't work, as i could not get the cursor to come to the left and add letters there. So I removed that property and added开发者_StackOverflow社区

direction:RTL

Here, the cursor came to the left and text was right aligned. but the newly added characters were not getting appended to the left. Instead they were getting appended to the right end only.

How do I fix this? please help..

For example, see the google arabic page search box. I need the exact behavior, although not with those fancy keyboard icon etc., http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=ar

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You can use the dir="rtl" on the input. It is supported.

<input dir="rtl" id="foo"/>

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Here's what I can think of:

• Use direction:RTL for the RIGHT alignment
• Write a JavaScript handler attached to the event: "onkeyup", which performs the shifting of the entered character to the LEFT (doing some text processing).

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function rtl(element)
{   
    if(element.setSelectionRange){
        element.setSelectionRange(0,0);
    }
}




<input type="text" name="textbox" style="direction:RTL;" onkeyup="rtl(this);"/>

This code will do.

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Simply use this CSS, this will change your text field and cursor position from right to left.

input, textarea { 
 unicode-bidi:bidi-override; 
 direction: RTL; 
}

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Use only direction:RTL and when switched to a proper keyboard (e.g. Arabic) in the system settings, the newly added characters will correctly be appended to the left.

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A feature specific to Angular Material, in addition to direction: rtl, is :

.mat-form-field {
   text-align: start!important;
 }

This will work for both RLT & LTR

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A better, more user-friendly way to do this is to set the dir attribute to auto.

<input dir="auto" id="foo"/>

This way if a user enters English text it will be left-aligned and if he enters Arabic text it will be right-aligned automatically

See here for more information on the dir attribute

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Use on the input in css.

input {
  unicode-bidi:bidi-override;
  direction: RTL;
}

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It works for Chrome browser.
Use a div element and make it editable.

    <div contenteditable="true">
    </div>