diff --git a/phpBB/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl b/phpBB/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl
index 8ee160c820..2a33d3b7c1 100644
--- a/phpBB/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl
+++ b/phpBB/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <!-- DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" -->
-<html>
+<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}">
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
diff --git a/phpBB/templates/subSilver/simple_header.tpl b/phpBB/templates/subSilver/simple_header.tpl
index 650ce8fcaa..ff0349cac9 100644
--- a/phpBB/templates/subSilver/simple_header.tpl
+++ b/phpBB/templates/subSilver/simple_header.tpl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" -->
 <!-- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> -->
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
+<html dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}"  />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
