--- title: "Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->direction" description: "The last use of $this in the Joomla 2.5 Beez2 template that will review is $this->direction. We can see it being used in the following section of code in the template's PHP file: <html..." url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this-direction/ date: 2012-07-19 modified: 2021-08-16 author: "Brad Markle" categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"] tags: ["Joomla v2.5"] type: post lang: en --- # Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->direction The last [use of $this in the Joomla 2.5 Beez2 template](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/this/) that will review is **$this->direction**. We can see it being used in the following section of code in the template’s PHP file: When we look at the result of the following code in our Joomla 2.5 site’s HTML, it looks like the following: As you can see, $this->direction specifies the direction of text in the template. In our example, the value is **ltr**, *left to right*.