Dice UI
Utilities

Direction Provider

Provides bidirectional text support (RTL/LTR) across your application.

API

Installation

CLI

npx shadcn@latest add @diceui/direction-provider

Manual

Install the following dependencies:

npm install @diceui/direction-provider

Copy and paste the following code into your project.

"use client";
 
import {
  DirectionProvider as GlobalDirectionProvider,
  useDirection,
} from "@radix-ui/react-direction";
import type * as React from "react";
 
function DirectionProvider(
  props: React.ComponentProps<typeof GlobalDirectionProvider>,
) {
  return <GlobalDirectionProvider {...props} />;
}
 
export {
  DirectionProvider,
  //
  useDirection,
};

Usage

import { DirectionProvider } from "@diceui/direction-provider"

export default function App() {
  return (
    <DirectionProvider dir="ltr">
      <YourApp />
    </DirectionProvider>
  )
}

API Reference

DirectionProvider

Manages direction context for the useDirection hook.

Prop

Type

useDirection

A hook to access the current direction.

import { useDirection } from "@/components/direction-provider"

function Component() {
  const dir = useDirection()
  
  return (
    <Button dir={dir}>
      Do a kickflip
    </Button>
  )
}

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