Joomla RTL support for module

Question

I am trying to support RTL for my Joomla module. I was wondering if there is any Joomla class that can determine if RTL language is currently in use such as:

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
if ($lang->isRTL()) {
   //do something here
}

I have tested the code above which I found in the Official Joomla Forums, but it does not seem to work.

In the Beez20 template I saw the following code:

if ($this->direction == 'rtl') {

}

but assumed this a template based statement.

So my question is, is there any way I can detect if the language that the website is being viewed in is an RTL language?

Answer 1

The first code snippet used in my answer works as shown below as well:

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
if ($lang->isRTL()) {
   //do something here
}

Only reason being it didn't work, was because I had another 2 if statements that were the wrong way round to this one.