Urdu CSS Direction Tester

What the Urdu CSS Direction Tester Does

The Urdu CSS Direction Tester is a small playground for the CSS that controls text direction. You set the direction, the text alignment, and the bidi behavior, and your Urdu text updates in the preview at once, so you can see exactly what each setting does before you commit to it.

When the preview looks right, the tester gives you the exact CSS to copy into your stylesheet. It turns a fiddly, trial-and-error part of styling Urdu into a quick, visual choice.

Everything runs on your own device. Your text is never uploaded or stored, so it stays private while you work.

How to Use It

1. Paste your text. Enter Urdu, or a mix of Urdu and English.
2. Set the direction. Choose right-to-left or left-to-right.
3. Set alignment and bidi. Pick a text alignment and a bidi behavior.
4. Copy the CSS. Take the exact CSS into your stylesheet.

The Direction Property

The direction property sets the base direction of the text. For Urdu it should be right-to-left, so the text begins at the right edge and the first word sits on the right. Setting it correctly is the single most important step for Urdu, since it fixes where lines start and how blocks of text flow across the page.

Text Alignment

Alignment sets which edge the text lines up against. For Urdu, aligning to the right, or to the logical start, gives the natural look, with each line beginning at the right. The logical values follow the direction automatically, so start and end stay correct even if the direction changes, which makes them a safe choice for a bilingual site.

The unicode-bidi Property

The unicode-bidi property controls how a run of text joins the direction around it. The isolate value fences the text off, so a piece of English inside Urdu does not disturb the order of the whole line, which is usually what you want. The other values embed, override, or treat the text as plain, and the preview shows how each one changes a mixed line.

A Worked Example

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Who Uses This Tester

Developers use it to style Urdu blocks. Designers use it to check alignment. Students use it to learn the direction properties.

Accuracy and Limits

The preview uses your browser’s own layout engine, so what you see is what these CSS properties will do on your page. The tester covers the core direction properties; a full layout also depends on the surrounding elements and on logical properties for margins and padding, which the CSS logical properties tester covers.

Good to know: to set the direction with the HTML dir attribute instead of CSS, the HTML dir attribute tester shows that.

Your Data Stays Private

The tester runs fully in your browser with standard web technology. Your text is not uploaded or stored, and it is not sent to any analytics service. Only your star rating is sent, to record the tool’s rating. When you close the page, your text is gone.