How to set a right-to-left paragraph in a Tumblr post?

Question

Tumbler used to allow right aligned paragraphs, which is useful in RTL languages (e.g., Hebrew or Arabic).

In the past, I'd create Right-to-Left paragraphs - by entering either of the following in the Tumblr post HTML code:

• <div align="right">
• <div style="text-align:right">

However, following the latest Tumblr "enhancements", these tags stopped having effects.

Anyone knows how to make a right-to-left paragraph in a Tumblr post?

Note: I'm aware that there're Tumblr themes that convert globally to RTL, but I want the justification to be only per paragraph (or post).

EDIT 1

Tried unor suggestion.
Unfortunately, Tumblr seems to ignore these html5 tags.
Namely, while this is the html code of the Tumblr post, the (Hebrew) paragraphs are still left-aligned!

Answer 1

Seems that the following tag (kudos @unor) will create a right-justified RTL paragraphs in a Tumblr post:

<div style="text-align: right;" dir="rtl">

See example.

Note:

In editing mode, these paragraphs will still show left-justified, but the displayed post will be right-justified.

Another Note:

This may seem obvious, but is worth mentioning, that the above tags should be inserted while editing the post in HTML view.

Answer 2

(I don’t know and can’t test what Tumblr allows/disallows in post markup; but here’s what they should support, ideally.)

If you want real RTL, you should not use CSS (or the obsoleted align attribute).

For specifying an element’s text directionality, HTML5 provides

• the dir attribute,
• the bdi element (for "isolating" content), and
• the bdo element.

If I understand your use case correctly, you could (try to) use one of these:

<p dir="rtl">…</p>

<p><bdo dir="rtl">…</bdo></p>