JavaScript/jQuery Editors - Right-to-Left Support

The DevExtreme Editor components support right-to-left (RTL) languages. The components can display content in a right-to-left direction and mirror associated UI elements.

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Backend API

$(() => { const checkBoxWidget = $('#checkbox').dxCheckBox({ value: true, text: 'text', elementAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Language' }, }).dxCheckBox('instance'); const switchWidget = $('#switch').dxSwitch({}).dxSwitch('instance'); const textBoxWidget = $('#text-box').dxTextBox({ showClearButton: true, inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Text Box' }, value: 'text', }).dxTextBox('instance'); const numberBoxWidget = $('#number-box').dxNumberBox({ showSpinButtons: true, value: '123', inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Number Box' }, }).dxNumberBox('instance'); const selectBoxWidget = $('#select-box').dxSelectBox({ items: europeanUnion, inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'European Union' }, value: europeanUnion[0].id, displayExpr: 'nameEn', valueExpr: 'id', }).dxSelectBox('instance'); const tagBoxWidget = $('#tag-box').dxTagBox({ items: europeanUnion, value: [europeanUnion[0].id], placeholder: '...', displayExpr: 'nameEn', inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Name' }, valueExpr: 'id', }).dxTagBox('instance'); const textAreaWidget = $('#text-area').dxTextArea({ value: 'text', inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Notes' }, }).dxTextArea('instance'); const autocompleteWidget = $('#autocomplete').dxAutocomplete({ items: europeanUnion, valueExpr: 'nameEn', inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Autocomplete' }, }).dxAutocomplete('instance'); const languages = ['Arabic: Right-to-Left direction', 'English: Left-to-Right direction']; $('#select-language').dxSelectBox({ items: languages, inputAttr: { 'aria-label': 'Language' }, value: languages[1], onValueChanged(data) { const rtl = data.value === languages[0]; const text = rtl ? 'نص' : 'text'; const expression = rtl ? 'nameAr' : 'nameEn'; $('#form').toggleClass('dx-rtl', rtl); checkBoxWidget.option({ text, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); textBoxWidget.option({ value: text, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); textAreaWidget.option({ value: text, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); selectBoxWidget.option({ displayExpr: expression, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); tagBoxWidget.option({ displayExpr: expression, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); autocompleteWidget.option({ value: '', rtlEnabled: rtl, }); autocompleteWidget.option({ valueExpr: expression, rtlEnabled: rtl, }); numberBoxWidget.option('rtlEnabled', rtl); switchWidget.option('rtlEnabled', rtl); }, }); });

<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write(decodeURIComponent('%3Cscript src="js/jquery.min.js"%3E%3C/script%3E'))</script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/24.1.7/css/dx.light.css" /> <script src="js/dx.all.js"></script> <script src="data.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <script src="index.js"></script> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div id="form"> <div class="options"> <div class="caption">Options</div> <div class="dx-fieldset"> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Language</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="select-language"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-fieldset"> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Text Box</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="text-box"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Number Box</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="number-box"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Select Box</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="select-box"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Tag Box</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="tag-box"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Text Area</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="text-area"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Autocomplete</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="autocomplete"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Check Box</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="checkbox"></div> </div> </div> <div class="dx-field"> <div class="dx-field-label">Switch</div> <div class="dx-field-value"> <div id="switch"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

.options { padding: 20px; background-color: rgba(191, 191, 191, 0.15); } .options .dx-fieldset { margin: 0; } .option { margin-top: 10px; } .caption { font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; padding-right: 15px; } .option > span { margin-right: 10px; } .option > .dx-widget { display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; }

const europeanUnion = [{ id: 1, nameAr: 'النمسا', nameEn: 'Austria', }, { id: 2, nameAr: 'بلجيكا', nameEn: 'Belgium', }, { id: 3, nameAr: 'بلغاريا', nameEn: 'Bulgaria', }, { id: 4, nameAr: 'كرواتيا', nameEn: 'Croatia', }, { id: 5, nameAr: 'قبرص', nameEn: 'Cyprus', }, { id: 6, nameAr: 'الجمهورية التشيكية', nameEn: 'Czech Republic', }, { id: 7, nameAr: 'الدنمارك', nameEn: 'Denmark', }, { id: 8, nameAr: 'استونيا', nameEn: 'Estonia', }, { id: 9, nameAr: 'فنلندا', nameEn: 'Finland', }, { id: 10, nameAr: 'فرنسا', nameEn: 'France', }, { id: 11, nameAr: 'ألمانيا', nameEn: 'Germany', }, { id: 12, nameAr: 'يونان', nameEn: 'Greece', }, { id: 13, nameAr: 'هنغاريا', nameEn: 'Hungary', }, { id: 14, nameAr: 'أيرلندا', nameEn: 'Ireland', }, { id: 15, nameAr: 'إيطاليا', nameEn: 'Italy', }, { id: 16, nameAr: 'لاتفيا', nameEn: 'Latvia', }, { id: 17, nameAr: 'ليتوانيا', nameEn: 'Lithuania', }, { id: 18, nameAr: 'لوكسمبورغ', nameEn: 'Luxembourg', }, { id: 19, nameAr: 'مالطا', nameEn: 'Malta', }, { id: 20, nameAr: 'هولندا', nameEn: 'Netherlands', }, { id: 21, nameAr: 'بولندا', nameEn: 'Poland', }, { id: 22, nameAr: 'البرتغال', nameEn: 'Portugal', }, { id: 23, nameAr: 'رومانيا', nameEn: 'Romania', }, { id: 24, nameAr: 'سلوفاكيا', nameEn: 'Slovakia', }, { id: 25, nameAr: 'سلوفينيا', nameEn: 'Slovenia', }, { id: 26, nameAr: 'إسبانيا', nameEn: 'Spain', }, { id: 27, nameAr: 'السويد', nameEn: 'Sweden', }, { id: 28, nameAr: 'المملكة المتحدة', nameEn: 'United Kingdom', }];

To enable RTL language support in the application, you can either set the globalConfig object's rtlEnabled property to true or specify each component's rtlEnabled property individually. Note that individual RTL parameters have higher priority than general parameters.

In this demo, you can use the language drop-down menu (for example, change the language from English to Arabic) to explore the differences between default and RTL modes.