hiding text using “text-indent”

Question

I\'m trying to hide some text inside an

element using CSS by setting text-indent: -999px;.
For some reason this doesn\'t work when I set

Answer 1

Try setting text-alignment to match the direction in which you are indenting text.

For example, if you use LTR and want to indent text negatively, besides adding display: block, you should also add left alignment.

Not sure for RTL, but seems logical you should indent it positively and use right alignment.