Hello! I'm trying to revert the direction of multi-column table applying the text direction change on whole document and simultaneously keeping the right text direction inside all the table cells, spans, paragraphs, etc.
Something like:

<span style="direction:rtl;">some text</span>
<table>
     <tr>
          <td style="direction:rtl;">cell #1 content</td>
          <td style="direction:rtl;">cell #2 content</td>
          <td style="direction:rtl;">cell #3 content</td>
     </tr>
</table>

Applying CSS:

@page:left
{
     direction: ltr;
}
@page:right
{
     direction: rtl;
}

The expected result is:

some text
-------------------------------------------------------
| cell #1 content | cell #2 content | cell #3 content |
-------------------------------------------------------

or

some text
-------------------------------------------------------
| cell #3 content | cell #2 content | cell #1 content |
-------------------------------------------------------

depending on direction set in @page:left / :right.

The reversion works on HTML page, but I don't see any effect of direction change in PDF - it all stays according to direction in HTML (set in body, for example, or default).

Does Prince support direction property to be set in @page:left / :right?

Thank you!

(using Prince 12)

Edited 31 Oct 2018 by olegole

No, the direction property on @page will not affect the document content.

Thanks for a quick answer!
Is there any other way to revert that kind of table, except for working around float: inside / outside?

At the moment we don't have any mechanism for mirroring tables depending on left/right page, this would require using floats or possibly a two-pass JavaScript process, although this could get complicated if table cells are broken across pages.

I see.
Life would be much more easier if all the content would fit the pages exactly, without breaking into the next ones)
Thanks!