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How to Refactor Your React Components for RTL Languages

DEV Community·Fuqiao Xue·27 days ago
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Internationalizing a React application is not just a matter of translating strings. For Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, and other languages written with right-to-left scripts, the interface itself must respect directionality: text flow, alignment, icons, spacing, table order, form behavior, and mixed-language content all need attention. The W3C Internationalization guidance is clear on the foundation: use HTML directionality to establish the base direction. The dir attribute is the semantic mechanism browsers use to apply the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm correctly, and W3C recommends adding dir="rtl" to the html element when the overall document direction is right-to-left. Start with document direction A common React anti-pattern is to scatter conditional class names across components: < div className = { locale === " ar " ? " text-right flex-row-reverse " : " text-left " } > ... </ div > Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode This is brittle and repetitive.…

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