APEX templates with Right-To-Left support

Right-To-Left orientation is part of the look and feel of the application page, and in the APEX environment, it's mainly controlled by the Theme's relevant Templates. In the next sub-sections, we'll review the most common templates we need to adapt as part of the Right-To-Left support implementation.

Templates, by default, are not included in the translatable elements of the application, mainly because they can seriously crowd the XLIFF file, which, even without them, can be quite packed with complicated (and baffling) strings of text and code.

If our Right-To-Left language is the only language of the application, we can make all the changes we need for the Right-To-Left support directly on the Templates. Otherwise, we need to include the Template in the XLIFF file generated by the APEX translation mechanism. We can do that by checking the Translatable checkbox in the appropriate Template, as can be seen in the next screenshot of a Page Template...