HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition

Name

bdo — <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 ).

Attributes

Core (id, class, style, title ), Events ( XHTML only )

dir="ltr|rtl"

Required. Indicates whether the selection should read left to right (ltr ) or right to left (rtl ).

lang="language code"

This attribute specifies the language of the element using a language code abbreviation.

xml:lang="text"

XHTML only. This is the method for specifying languages in XML documents using a language code abbreviation.

Example

<bdo dir="ltr"> English phrase in an otherwise Arabic text.
</bdo>