-ms-layout-flow property

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01/11/2017

Specifies the direction and flow of the content in the object.

Syntax

-ms-layout-flow: horizontal | vertical-ideographic

Property values

horizontal
Default. Content in the object flows from left to right, and the next horizontal line is positioned underneath the previous line. This layout is used in most Roman-based documents.
vertical-ideographic
Content in the object flows from top to bottom, and the next vertical line appears to the left of the previous one. This layout is used in East Asian typography.

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	1
Initial Value

Remarks

Windows Internet Explorer 8. The -ms-layout-flow attribute is an extension to CSS, and can be used as a synonym for layout-flow in IE8 Standards mode.

This is a deprecated property; use the -ms-writing-mode property instead.

This property is read-only for the .

Examples

Click the following button to view a demonstration of this property.

Code example: https://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/layoutFlow.htm