Right to left design

1. What is LTR and RTL?
2. What is RTL in web design?
3. What is RTL in front end?
4. Which icons should be mirrored for RTL?

What is LTR and RTL?

The main difference between left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) language scripts is the direction in which content is displayed: LTR languages display content from left to right. RTL languages display content from right to left.

What is RTL in web design?

On the web, as we said earlier, the term Right-To-Left indicates more than just a script for writing. It stands for all facets of developing web apps and websites that do not break or become unreadable when used with Arabic, Urdu or any other RTL script.

What is RTL in front end?

1) In RTL language regions, people read and write from right to left. This means that most interface elements should be flipped in order to be displayed correctly.

Which icons should be mirrored for RTL?

Icons that speak or reflect direction should be mirrored.

In order to trigger the same feeling, or intent to the user across LTR and RTL interfaces, icons with direction associated with them should be mirrored in-order to send the same message, where otherwise it could send the opposite intent.