diff --git a/phpBB/adm/style/colour_swatch.html b/phpBB/adm/style/colour_swatch.html
index e7d7d03f14..f52f3217c5 100644
--- a/phpBB/adm/style/colour_swatch.html
+++ b/phpBB/adm/style/colour_swatch.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="{S_USER_LANG}" xml:lang="{S_USER_LANG}">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}" lang="{S_USER_LANG}" xml:lang="{S_USER_LANG}">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}" />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
