{-ms-writing-mode} Trident Vendor-Prefixed Property | CSS: Presentation Layer

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--ms-writing-mode property is a Trident vendor-prefixed Microsoft Extension to css. --ms-writing-mode is used to specify the direction and flow of the content in the object.

Property Values

lr-tb

Initial value. Content flows horizontally from left to right and top to bottom. The next horizontal line is positioned underneath the previous line. All glyphs are positioned upright; this layout is used by most writing systems.

rl-tb

Content flows horizontally from right to left and top to bottom; the next horizontal line is positioned underneath the previous line. All glyphs are positioned upright. This layout is used with right-to-left scripts like Arabic, Hebrew, Thaana, and Syriac.

tb-rl

Content flows vertically from top to bottom and right to left. The next vertical line is positioned to the left of the previous line. Wide-;cell glyphs are positioned upright; nonwide-cell glyphs (also knows as Narrow.

bt-rl

Content flows vertically from bottom to top and right to left. The next vertical line is positioned to the left of the previous line. Wide-cell glyphs are positioned uprgight; nonwide-cell glyphs (also known as narrow Latin or narrow Kana glyphs.