<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"><head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>text-align: start, dir=rtl</title> <link href="mailto:ishida@w3.org" rel="author" title="Richard Ishida"> <link href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#text-align-property" rel="help"> <link href="reference/text-align-start-ref-007.htm" rel="match"> <meta content="text-align:start aligns inline-level content to the start edge of the line box – ie. right when direction is horizontal, rtl." name="assert"> <style type="text/css"> .test { text-align: start; } /* the CSS below is not part of the test */ .test, .ref { border: 1px solid orange; margin: 20px; width: 290px; color: orange; font: 24px/24px ahem; } .ref { position: relative; height: 72px; } #rb1 { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; background-color: orange; width: 72px; height: 72px; } #rb2 { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 96px; background-color: orange; width: 72px; height: 72px; } #rb3 { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 192px; background-color: orange; width: 72px; height: 48px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="instructions">Test passes if the shading in both orange boxes looks the same.</div> <div class="test" dir="rtl">XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX</div> <div class="ref"><div id="rb1"></div><div id="rb2"></div><div id="rb3"></div></div> </body></html>