---
title: Direction Provider
description: Enables RTL behavior for Sveltery Base components.
---

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# Direction Provider

Enables RTL behavior for Sveltery Base components.

```svelte
<script lang="ts">
	import { DirectionProvider } from '@sveltery/base/direction-provider';
	import { Slider } from '@sveltery/base/slider';
</script>

<div dir="rtl">
	<DirectionProvider direction="rtl">
		<Slider.Root defaultValue={25}>
			<Slider.Control class="flex w-56 touch-none items-center py-3 select-none">
				<Slider.Track class="h-1 w-full bg-neutral-200 select-none dark:bg-neutral-800">
					<Slider.Indicator class="bg-neutral-950 select-none dark:bg-white" />
					<Slider.Thumb
						aria-label="Volume"
						class="size-4 border border-neutral-950 bg-white select-none has-[:focus-visible]:outline-2 has-[:focus-visible]:outline-offset-2 has-[:focus-visible]:outline-neutral-950 dark:border-white dark:bg-neutral-950 dark:has-[:focus-visible]:outline-white"
					/>
				</Slider.Track>
			</Slider.Control>
		</Slider.Root>
	</DirectionProvider>
</div>
```

## Anatomy

Import the component and wrap it around your app:

```svelte title="Anatomy"
<script lang="ts">
	import { DirectionProvider } from '@sveltery/base/direction-provider';
</script>

<DirectionProvider>
	</DirectionProvider>
```

`<DirectionProvider>` enables child Sveltery Base components to adjust behavior based on RTL text direction, but does not affect HTML and CSS. The `dir="rtl"` HTML attribute or `direction: rtl` CSS style must be set additionally by your own application code.

## API reference

### DirectionProvider

Provides a reading direction to descendant components. Renders no element.

**DirectionProvider Props:**

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :------ | :---------- |
| direction | `TextDirection` | `'ltr'` | The reading direction of the text. |

### useDirection

Use this function to read the current text direction. This is useful for wrapping portaled components that may be rendered outside your application root and are unaffected by the `dir` attribute set within.

Call it while the component initializes. It returns an object instead of a string, so that the `direction` property stays current when the provider's `direction` changes. Read the property in the template, in `$derived`, or in an event handler.

```svelte
<script lang="ts">
	import { useDirection } from '@sveltery/base/direction-provider';

	const reading = useDirection();
</script>

<div dir={reading.direction}>...</div>
```

**useDirection return value:**

```ts
type ReturnValue = DirectionReading;

interface DirectionReading {
	readonly direction: TextDirection;
}
```

Outside a provider, `direction` is `'ltr'`.

### TextDirection

```ts
type TextDirection = 'ltr' | 'rtl';
```