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I have this html:

<body style="direction: rtl">
    <div style="display:inline-block">
        <span>x:</span> <span>1</span>, 
        <span>y:</span> <span>2</span> |  
        <a>link1</a> | 
    </div>
    <a>link2</a>
</body>

With direction: ltr it displays:

x: 1, y: 2 | link1 | link2

But when I change it to rtl is shows:

link2 | x: 1, y: 2 | link1 

while I would expect:

link2 | link1 | 2 :y ,1 :x

Is there a way to set css properties to achieve the expected result wihtout modifying the DOM elements structure (the types of the elements can be changed though)?

+1  A: 

Try this:

<body style="direction: rtl">
    <div style="display:inline-block">
        <span dir="rtl">x:</span> <span dir="rtl">1</span>, 
        <span dir="rtl">y:</span> <span dir="rtl">2</span> |  
        <a>link1</a> | 
    </div>
    <a>link2</a>
</body>

​This gave me what you wanted.

Useful links: http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html and http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html

brainjam
Thanks, it worked
Jacek