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Notification: dir property

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The dir read-only property of the Notification interface indicates the text direction of the notification, as specified in the dir option of the Notification() constructor.

Value

A string specifying the text direction. Possible values are:

auto

adopts the browser's language setting behavior (the default.)

ltr

left to right.

rtl

right to left.

Note: Most browsers seem to ignore explicit ltr and rtl settings, and just go with the browser-wide setting.

Examples

The following snippet fires a notification; a simple options object is created, then the notification is fired using the Notification() constructor.

js

const options = {
  body: "Your code submission has received 3 new review comments.",
  dir: "rtl",
};

const n = new Notification("New review activity", options);

console.log(n.dir); // "rtl"

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
dir 20 14 26 No 23 7 No 42 26 29 16.4 4.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/dir