{"json_modified": "2016-03-28T07:39:53.477683", "uuid": "0d5cef77-a056-402e-b5b7-78814f65720c", "title": "direction", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/direction", "tags": ["SVG Attribute", "SVG", "NeedsCompatTable", "NeedsExample"], "translations": [], "modified": "2014-03-24T08:40:28", "label": "direction", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 96, "last_edit": "2013-06-08T05:20:20", "summary": "The <code>direction</code> attribute specifies the base writing direction of text and the direction of embeddings and overrides (see <code><a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/unicode-bidi\">unicode-bidi</a></code>) for the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. For the <code>direction</code> attribute to have any effect on an element that does not by itself establish a new text chunk (such as a <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/tspan\" title=\"Within a &lt;text&gt; element, text and font properties and the current text position can be adjusted with absolute or relative coordinate values by including a tspan element.\"><code>&lt;tspan&gt;</code></a> element without absolute position adjustments due to <code><a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/x\">x</a></code> or <code><a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/y\">y</a></code> attributes), the <code><a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/unicode-bidi\">unicode-bidi</a></code> property's value must be embed or bidi-override.", "sections": [{"id": "Usage_context", "title": "Usage context"}, {"id": "Example", "title": "Example"}, {"id": "Elements", "title": "Elements"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/SVG/Attribute/direction", "review_tags": []}