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Right-to-Left Development: Tips and Tricks

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Nataly Palienko
Right-to-Left Development: Tips and Tricks

The Middle Eastern market is evolving at a rapid pace and its online presence is growing along with it. However, many software developers suffer from a lack of educational information when it comes to developing right-to-left (RTL) websites for the region and they are often forced to work by trial and error when it comes to RTL in web development.

Authoring an RTL website is an unconventional task, even for an experienced frontend developer. Since languages that are read from right to left, such as Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, etc., involve making particular changes to the development process, there are a number of specific details that need to be taken into account by developers.

In our previous article, we talked about RTL website design. In this post, we’ll take a look at the peculiarities of building RTL websites and bidirectional websites.


Creating right-to-left websites: Characteristics to take into account

1) In RTL language regions, people read and write from right to left. This means that most interface elements should be flipped in order to be displayed correctly.

2) Elements connected with media-content management, such as “Play” in a video player, don’t need to be mirrored.

3) The order of digits in numbers (such as phone numbers) doesn’t differ from left-to-right writing.

4) Overlining is usually used to highlight text in Arabic (instead of underlining, italics, or interspacing).


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