Design distortion on right-left languages

  • Resolved spala

    (@spala)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    when i try a multi-lang plugin, i get problem on the design of the theme,

    the problems are related just with complex language that are wrote from right to left,

    that means things like the logo is moved to the right,
    all the menu order is reversed,

    things like the side-bar is moved to the left,

    overall its all a mess, would be good to know if there is any way to avoid this distortion, ??

    regards

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  • Hi Spala,

    this isn’t a mess… It’s how WordPress themes that support right-to-left (RTL) languages work. If you have a right-to-left language, then of course the layout needs to adapt as well to support the reading flow of these users.

    Having content from right-to-left while leaving the layout from left-to-right doesn’t make sense. Keep in mind that users from these countries have other requirements in terms of layout arrangement than you do.

    Thread Starter spala

    (@spala)

    no way to at least keep the logo in the left?

    No, not out of the box and it wouldn’t make sense anyway because users from RTL countries would expect the logo on the right, not on the left. The same way you in your language would expect the logo on the left, not on the right.

    If you don’t want to support RTL languages, then just disable these languages in your multilingual plugin and you’re good.

    Thread Starter spala

    (@spala)

    just in case anyone is looking for the same,
    adding float:left; to .mh-site-logo at line 117 was enought to keep it stick on the left,

    thanks for the reponse anyway,

    I will ask to the person if he prefer to keep it stable or moved to the right, so at least he has the option,

    regards

    You’re welcome and good luck with your website.

    However, you really shouldn’t modify core theme files. This is not only considered to be bad practice, but these kind of changes also will be lost after theme updates.

    Adding code modifications correctly (if you’re familiar with coding) would either be through a custom child theme, plugins for adding code snippets, or via Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS in your WordPress dashboard.

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