The dirname Attribute

Live Demo

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The Low Down

The dirname attribute enables the submission of the directionality of the form control along with the value of the form control on form submission.

• When the user submits the form, the user agent will include two fields, the name / value pair and the dirname / direction. In the above example, the form will submit foo=bar&foo.dir=ltr if we entered bar as the value.
• If the user manually switches to a right-to-left writing direction and enters something in Arabic, Hebrew or other, the value of foo.dir will be rtl.
• The dirname attribute is only relevant for the text and search input types, and for <textarea>.