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Right-to-Left tables

  • April 10, 2016
  • 24 replies
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It would be great to have a way to switch tables to display from right-to-left for Arabic for example.

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  • Participating Frequently
  • September 21, 2016

I second this request. Also exported arabic text changes encoding. That is really an issue for me too.

Just like it is stated in this post:
https://community.airtable.com/t/encoding-issues-for-other-languages-in-csv-export/618?u=anna_kelian


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  • Participating Frequently
  • December 26, 2017

RTL is important for several languages: Arabic, Parsian and Hebrew to name a few. For the meanwhile it can be achieved by a CSS manipulator plugin like Stylish for Chrome or Userstyles for Firefox but this is really a temporary hack. I second the request to solve this issue.


  • New Participant
  • September 24, 2018

I’d love to see right-to-left support for text fields. We have a base featuring many languages so having an entire base be right-to-left wouldn’t work for us, but we do need it for individual fields. Right now we have to work with Hebrew and Arabic outside of Airtable, which isn’t ideal!


+1
Please update us if there are any plans to add this feature in the future


  • New Participant
  • May 8, 2019

I am Iranian trying to use this database but my app data is shown corrupted and useless. Why don’t you support RTL? and why doesn’t anyone answer? Anyone has a solution for this?


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  • Participating Frequently
  • August 1, 2019

+1
Would immensely improve the chances to widely use AT in Israel.


  • New Participant
  • August 25, 2019

It will be very useful if you will support right to left, also in the form text


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  • New Participant
  • April 1, 2020

+1 . especially in forms view


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  • Participating Frequently
  • June 9, 2020

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Would anyone care to at least acknowledge this pressing need? More then 500 million people rely on a RTL Language.

The following article is an interesting read on this topic:


  • New Participant
  • July 6, 2020

Well?

After 4 years don’t you think this functionality should have been implemented already?


  • New Participant
  • August 3, 2020

When is this happening? We’re not able to work in Arabic for our translation work using Airtable, which makes it so we have to use Google Sheets in addition to Airtable, or we may have to shift to Google Sheets entirely.


  • Participating Frequently
  • August 15, 2020

And for views Also. It will be great for RTL.


Hello,
Do You have RTL Forms / Tables ?
How can i make one ?

Or may we add Custom CSS ?

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_direction.asp

Thanks


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  • Participating Frequently
  • September 27, 2020

The only solution I’ve found is to use Table2Site (https://table2site.com/) which supports RTL.But that’s a vary partial solution. I am impatiently waiting for the new Google Tables product. 4 years and they didn’t care a bit. Google products have better RTL support.


  • New Participant
  • March 6, 2021

Did anyone fine a resolution for RTL in Airtable ? Does they have a plan to support this ?


  • New Participant
  • July 15, 2021

Wow… still no solution??


  • New Participant
  • September 4, 2021

Wow i can’t believe it hasn’t been done yet.

As a mini-developer i even know how much easy this job is (by Relativity of course).

Airtable has a lot of Right-To-Left lang users, and the fact that it isn’t been done yet - looks like a disrespectful approach to their clients.


  • New Participant
  • December 14, 2021

+1
Please update us if there are any plans to add this feature in the future


Guys please! it has been requested from 2016

RTL support would encourage a whole new segment of customers to use Airtable.


  • New Participant
  • August 27, 2022

Any new updates?? It’s super important to support RTL for so many people by default!


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  • Participating Frequently
  • October 2, 2022

Any new updates?? It’s super important to support RTL for so many people by default!


As a temporary solution, install the chrome stylish addon (stylish is free for one style - skip the payment option and go directly to the website userstyles.org after installing the addon).

Then go to the following URL and click install:

This is a browser-level temporary solution, until Airtable fix it on the core level.
It has to be installed on each needed browser seprately.


  • New Participant
  • October 28, 2022

As a temporary solution, install the chrome stylish addon (stylish is free for one style - skip the payment option and go directly to the website userstyles.org after installing the addon).

Then go to the following URL and click install:

This is a browser-level temporary solution, until Airtable fix it on the core level.
It has to be installed on each needed browser seprately.


Hi Amnon,
Great work. However, it seems to only resolve the field data. This doesn’t RTL the labels or other components elements.
Any ideas?
Thanks


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  • New Participant
  • November 22, 2022

fillout.com has a feature to make Airtable forms right-to-left aligned (for free!). It takes less than 3 minutes or so to connect to Airtable and create a form, so if you need RTL forms, feel free to try it out! Here’s quick help article about how to enable that! 🙂


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  • New Participant
  • July 30, 2024

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