---
title: baseWritingDirection
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/nsparagraphstyle/basewritingdirection
---

# baseWritingDirection

The base writing direction for the paragraph.

## Declaration

```swift
var baseWritingDirection: NSWritingDirection { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If you the value of this property is NSWritingDirection.natural, the receiver resolves the writing direction to either NSWritingDirection.leftToRight or NSWritingDirection.rightToLeft, depending on the direction for the user’s language preference setting.

## See Also

### Determining writing direction

- [defaultWritingDirection(forLanguage:)](uikit/nsparagraphstyle/defaultwritingdirection(forlanguage:).md)
- [NSWritingDirection](uikit/nswritingdirection.md)