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user2324039
user2324039

Reputation: 1

Using "if / else" in CSS to change language

Does anyone know how to use condition in CSS? I'm using PHP CMS.

The thing is that I have a variable "Post Title" that sometimes may be in RTL language. So I want some sort of CSS code or any other solution that can detect if the language is arabic and set the direction to RTL, else LTR.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2295

Answers (3)

Ali Akbar Azizi
Ali Akbar Azizi

Reputation: 3506

i think best way is write 2 different CSS, on for rtl , and another for ltr

and put it in your php code in <header></header> html tag

if($lang['direction'] == "ltr" )
  echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ltr.css">';
else
  echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rtl.css">';

Upvotes: 0

Ben Carey
Ben Carey

Reputation: 16968

Instead of trying to generate the CSS on the fly, why not include the a stylesheet relevant to the content like so:

<?php

    if($style_1){
        echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet_1.css">
    }else{
        echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet_2.css">
    }

?>

There are several ways you can achieve this, but in my opinion, the above is definitely the better of the methods

Upvotes: 1

Dom
Dom

Reputation: 7325

Try this, good example on how to style RTL blogs, but I'm not sure if its compatable with your CMS.

http://fortysevenmedia.com/blog/archives/styling_right-to-left_text_with_css_on_a_multi-lingual_site/

OR

You can have something e.g.

<?php if($lang="en"){?>
body .title{left to right styles}
<?php }else{?>
body .title{right to left styles}
<?php }?>

Just a simple example.

Upvotes: 0

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