diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 971993ede0..44966c27d3 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ MSW:
 All (GUI):
 
 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
+- wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
 
 
diff --git a/src/html/htmlwin.cpp b/src/html/htmlwin.cpp
index a19f7c4206..ceb2fac7c8 100644
--- a/src/html/htmlwin.cpp
+++ b/src/html/htmlwin.cpp
@@ -1149,6 +1149,7 @@ void wxHtmlWindow::OnPaint(wxPaintEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
     // draw the HTML window contents
     dc->SetMapMode(wxMM_TEXT);
     dc->SetBackgroundMode(wxBRUSHSTYLE_TRANSPARENT);
+    dc->SetLayoutDirection(GetLayoutDirection());
 
     wxHtmlRenderingInfo rinfo;
     wxDefaultHtmlRenderingStyle rstyle;