How to Align Your Forms to a Right-to-Left Direction

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Arabic, Hebrew, Pashto, Persian, Urdu, and Sindhi are common languages that are written from right to left (RTL). If your form’s script needs to be in the RTL direction, you can do so using CSS.

Here’s how:

  1. In Form Builder, click on the roller paint icon in the upper-right corner.
  2. Select Styles in the right panel.
  3. Scroll down to the Inject Custom CSS section.
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  1. Paste the following code in the CSS editor:
.form-all, .form-header, .form-subHeader, .form-textarea, .form-textbox {
	direction: rtl;
	text-align: right !important;
}

.form-checkbox-item:not(#foo) label:before, .form-radio-item:not(#foo) label:before {
	right: 0;
	margin-right: 0;
	float: right;
}

.form-radio-item:not(#foo) label:after {
	right: 4px;
}

.form-checkbox-item:not(#foo) label:after {
	right: 8px;
}

.form-checkbox-item:not(#foo) label {
	float: right;
}

.form-all .form-section .form-col-2 {
	width: 33.3% !important;
}

.form-label, label.form-label.form-label-auto, label.form-label:not(.form-label-top) {
	text-align: right !important;
}

span.phone-separate {
	display: none;
}

.form-line-error .form-error-message {
	right: unset !important;
	left: 0 !important;
	text-align: left;
}

.form-checkbox-item:not(#foo) label:after {
	right: 0;
}

.form-multiple-column, .form-single-column {
	width: 100%;
	display: inline-flex;
	flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.form-multiple-column .form-checkbox-item, .form-multiple-column .form-radio-item, .form-single-column .form-checkbox-item, .form-single-column .form-radio-item {
	width: 100%;
}

.form-checkbox+label, .form-checkbox+span, .form-radio+label, .form-radio+span {
	padding-right: 30px;
	padding-left: 0;
}

.form-matrix-values label.matrix-choice-label {
	padding-right: 20px;
	padding-left: 0;
}

.form-label:not(.form-label-top) + .form-input .form-address-line + .form-address-line, .form-sub-label-container + .form-sub-label-container {
	margin-right: 8px;
}

.form-address-line + .form-address-line {
	margin-left: 0;
}

.form-product-item .p_image .image_area {
	margin-left: 10px;
	margin-right: 10px;
}

Note

The code is only applicable to basic form elements (and some widgets). If you need help aligning your form elements that are not covered by the code, contact us.

View your form in Preview or Live mode to see the changes.

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Here’s a demo form to see what it looks like.

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