Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Typing Arabic in a field: cursor, text or placeholder on the wrong side

Kuwait and Gulf

What you may see

An email or phone field behaves strangely in Arabic
English words in an Arabic field jump around

Most likely cause

Fields follow the page direction; fields that always hold left-to-right data (email, phone, link, code) need their own direction.

Check first (about two minutes)

Test an email field and a name field on the Arabic page.

The fix prompt

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

I am in Kuwait. If the service has a Kuwait or Gulf rule or option that matters here (for example KNET, Arabic right-to-left text or local time), take it into account.

THE PROBLEM
Typing Arabic in a field: cursor, text or placeholder on the wrong side

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Fields follow the page direction; fields that always hold left-to-right data (email, phone, link, code) need their own direction.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Set dir="ltr" on email, phone, URL and code fields, with text-align: start so they sit on the correct side.
2. Set dir="auto" on free text fields (names, addresses, messages) so each text follows its own language.
3. Use the right input types (email, tel) so phone keyboards show correctly.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Typing an email in Arabic mode keeps it left-to-right, and Arabic names type right-to-left.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not change how the data is saved.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Set dir="ltr" on email, phone, URL and code fields, with text-align: start so they sit on the correct side.
Set dir="auto" on free text fields (names, addresses, messages) so each text follows its own language.
Use the right input types (email, tel) so phone keyboards show correctly.

Do not do this

Do not force every field to rtl.
Do not change how the data is saved.

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