diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 3d540704b..4121bdde5 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
 
   def direction_for(string)
     return '' unless string.respond_to?(:cleaned_is_rtl?)
-    string.cleaned_is_rtl? ? 'rtl' : ''
+    string.cleaned_is_rtl? ? 'rtl' : 'ltr'
   end
 
   def rtl?