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layoutFlow style property

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Specifies or returns the flow and direction of the content in an element.

This property is deprecated, use the writingMode property instead.

Syntax:

object.layoutFlow;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: layout-flow

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

horizontal

Default. Content flows from left to right.

vertical-ideographic

Content flows from top to bottom.

Default: horizontal.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the layout-flow property:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            layout-flow: vertical-ideographic;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example">vertical-ideographic</div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the layoutFlow property in JavaScript:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeLayout (selectTag) {            
            // Returns the index of the selected option
            var whichSelected = selectTag.selectedIndex;

            // Returns the selected options values
            var selectState = selectTag.options[whichSelected].text;

            var div = document.getElementById ("myDiv");

            if ('layoutFlow' in div.style) {
                div.style.layoutFlow = selectState;
            } else {
                alert ("Your browser doesn't support this example!");
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv" class="example">Change the value of layout-flow property</div>
    
    <br />
    <select onchange="ChangeLayout (this);" size="2">
        <option selected="selected" />horizontal
        <option />vertical-ideographic
    </select>
</body>