Text alignment

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  chehadeel · Member · Jan 31, 2012 at 1:28 pm

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  Hello :)
  I’m kinda new here.
  I blog in Arabic & English, but when I do post something in English, the text would be aligned to the right just like Arabic. I’ve tried to change that but I couldn’t especially since I’m not that great with computer stuff.
  I just try not to post anything in English :( so PLEASE HELP

  How can My English text be aligned to the left & Arabic one stays the same aligned to the right??
  Blog url: http://thehadeel.wordpress.com/

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Jan 31, 2012 at 3:06 pm

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  Posting in both a right-to-left language and a left-to-right language can be tricky.

  You can use some inline css to force a left alignent. To do that, you’ll need to use the HTML editor.

  When entering a paragraph in english, you can use the following code:

  
<p dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr;text-align:left">ENGLISH TEXT GOES HERE</p>

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  chehadeel · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 8:55 pm

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  Okay thanks :) it worked
  But I tried it with the header & it didn’t. What do I do?
  Also, I want the dates to be shown in English without the text alignment changing, can I do that?

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  evarlese · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 9:38 pm

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  Okay, the header is a bit different since you can’t change the CSS for the header area without the Custom Design upgrade:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  One alternative would be to use a custom header image with your site title incorporated into the photo:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-header-images

  Regarding the date, it will display in the language that you’ve chosen via your Settings -> General page. You can modify the format via the Date Format option.

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  chehadeel · Member · Feb 4, 2012 at 11:39 pm

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  Thank u so much .. I’ll try that
  <3