Right to left in Asp.net

Evil Phil

The project I'm currently working on will have to support right to left languages like Arabic, I am setting the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture but that isn't changing the controls to right to left. I'm setting this programmatically for each control which is an effort to say the least.

Is there a way of setting right to left orientation without having to programmatically set the attribute on each control/element through code?

Anybody got a good resource for this work besides the standard msdn stuff?

theexis

What is your expectation for the UI? Given you're in ASP.NET its the thread locale of the client browser thats important. There are 2 ways to support RTL, mirroring and flipping; I don't believe mirroring is supported in a platform independant way in the HTML standard so you have to flip each control as you have done manually.

Evil Phil

We pick up locale from the client, if its not supported we default to English, however the language can be changed manualy by the user. Yeah, it looks like I am going to have to do each control manually.

WizZard

This should do it for you.

Evil Phil

That's pretty much what I'm doing Wizzard, just setting the attribute programatically - seems a bit sloppy though so I hoped I was missing something.

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I've just spoken to our localisation dude in the states and apparently standard asp.net controls will do it automatically - need to go digging I think. I'll post my results anyway.

WizZard

It's a while since I looked at anything like that I'm afraid.

Maybe derive all your controls from a custom control and get it to read that setting from your system. Then the control would do it itself without any help from you?