Direction ltr in a rtl HTML page

Question

I am trying to display a negative number in a rtl HTML page.

The label doesn\'t seem to respond to my direction: ltr

I have written a jsFiddle to di

Answer 1

In addition to Henrik's answer , I would add a LRM control character before the minus sign like so:

‎-9 ₪​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This way the minus sign gets placed before the 9 (which is probably what you want)

This microsoft doc explains the LRM control character along with other control characters.