Set tinymce direction to rtl

I install Tinymce editor to my site. And now i need to set the default direction to RTL not LTR.

I try this way but not work with me :-

#tinymce p {
 direction : rtl;
}

How can do that ??

I install Tinymce editor to my site. And now i need to set the default direction to RTL not LTR.

I try this way but not work with me :-

#tinymce p {
 direction : rtl;
}

How can do that ??

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Share Improve this question asked Feb 18, 2015 at 16:31 Kotsh GFXKotsh GFX 4366 bronze badges 5

• In WordPress, if you enable a RTL language, TinyMCE directionaly setting is atuomatically set to RTL. What are trying to do exactly? – cybmeta Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 17:47
• where can set this setting – Kotsh GFX Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 17:52
• "I install Tinymce editor to my site" - are you actually using WordPress? – vancoder Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 18:53
• yes i use WordPress – Kotsh GFX Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 9:45
• 1 3 years later, RTL editing still a PITA. I thought Wordpress was a good choice. I thought a decade-old global platform would have ironed out such issues. I thought wrong. – Rolf Commented May 11, 2018 at 4:15

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In wordpress, the editor will support and will be in RTL by default if you install it in an rtl language, for example, if you install wordpress with the hebrew UI the editor will be rtl by default.

The problem is if you install the hebrew UI but change your profile to use the English one, in order to still use the editor in rtl mode while using the English UI you can add this code to functions.php or a site plugin:

function Eyal_setEditorToRTL($settings)
{
    $settings['directionality'] = 'rtl';
    return $settings;
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'Eyal_setEditorToRTL');

The filter alters the default settings for the tinyMCE editor and set it in rtl mode.

 tinymce.init({
        selector: 'textarea#editor', 
        directionality :"rtl"
});