Directionality plugin

This plugin adds directionality controls to the toolbar, enabling TinyMCE to better handle languages written from right to left. It also adds a toolbar button for each of its values, ltr for left-to-right text and rtl for right-to-left text.

Basic setup

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: 'directionality',
  toolbar: 'ltr rtl'
});

Toolbar buttons

The Directionality plugin provides the following toolbar buttons:

Toolbar button identifier Description

ltr

Sets the directionality of contents to ltr.

rtl

Sets the directionality of contents to rtl.

These toolbar buttons can be added to the editor using:

Commands

The Directionality plugin provides the following TinyMCE commands.

Command Description

mceDirectionLTR

Changes the directionality to LTR.

mceDirectionRTL

Changes the directionality to RTL.
Examples
tinymce.activeEditor.execCommand('mceDirectionLTR');
tinymce.activeEditor.execCommand('mceDirectionRTL');