Name
bdo — HTML 4.01 | HTML5
Synopsis
<bdo> . . . </bdo>
Stands for “bidirectional override” and is used to indicate a
selection of text that reads in the opposite direction than the
surrounding text. For instance, in a left-to-right reading document,
the bdo element may be used to indicate a
selection of Hebrew text that reads right to left (rtl).
Start/End Tags
Required/Required
Attributes
Core, Events (XHTML only), HTML5 Global Attributes
dir="ltr|rtl"Required. Indicates whether the selection should read left to right (
ltr) or right to left (rtl).lang="language code"Specifies the language of the element using a language code abbreviation.
xml:lang="text"XHTML only. Specifies languages in XML documents using a language code abbreviation.
Example
<bdo dir="ltr">English phrase in otherwise Arabic text.</bdo>
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