Comments on: Is there a Correct Answer? Flipping Layouts When Google Translate Swaps between a Left-to-Right Language and a Right-to-Left Language https://frontendmasters.com/blog/to-flip-or-not-to-flip/ Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer Sat, 17 May 2025 14:04:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Chris Coyier https://frontendmasters.com/blog/to-flip-or-not-to-flip/#comment-28037 Sat, 17 May 2025 14:04:48 +0000 https://frontendmasters.com/blog/?p=5890#comment-28037 In reply to David Bushell.

Great advice.

]]> By: David Bushell https://frontendmasters.com/blog/to-flip-or-not-to-flip/#comment-28007 Sat, 17 May 2025 07:13:15 +0000 https://frontendmasters.com/blog/?p=5890#comment-28007 Ahmad Shadeed’s “RTL Styling 101” has some nuances:
https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling/

Notably many icons are bidirectional and don’t need flipping, even if they’re asymmetrical.

I’ve always done a full layout flip with dir attribute/selector and .translated-rtl class. Anecdotally, feedback has been positive. For SVG icons I’ve selectively used transform: scaleX(-1) as a hack, praying I don’t need other transforms.

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