detecting right to left layout

[Chrome786]

Hi,

 

I am trying to detect right to left layout thorugh chrome extension. When I install Chrome for Arabic or any other language which has a RTL layout, my extension UI remain LTR layout. Is there any way to detect RTL layout?

 

Thanks,

Syed

[Mohamed Mansour]

Hi Syed,

Chrome extensions has neat internationalization support. There are BIDI (bi-directional) messages that you can use:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/i18n.html#overview-predefined

For example, to properly use  the correct LTR/RTL layout, you can do the following:

document.body.dir = chrome.i18n.getMessage('@@bidi_dir');

If you want to do it in CSS, then you can do the following:

body {

  direction: __MSG_@@bidi_dir__;

}

I noticed a bug on the documentation, I will submit a patch to fix it.

Kind regards,
Mohamed Mansour

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[Chrome786]

Thanks Mansour for your tip.

 

Regards,

-Syed