<!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>HTML Test: BDI: neutral to surrounding letters</title> <link rel="reference" href="https://bug712600.bugzilla.mozilla.org/bdi-neutral-to-surrounding-run-ref.html"> <link rel="author" title="Aharon Lanin" href="mailto:aharon@google.com"> <link rel="author" title="HTML5 bidi test WG" href="mailto:html5bidi@googlegroups.com"> <link rel="help" href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-bdi-element"> <meta name="assert" content=" 'For the purposes of applying the bidirectional algorithm to the paragraph-level container that a bdi element finds itself within, the bdi element must be treated like a U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.' Thus, regardless of its content and its dir attribute (if any), a BDI will not prevent a strongly RTL (or LTR) character preceding it from forming a single directional run with another strongly RTL (LTR) character following it."> <style> body{ font-size:2em; } </style> </head> <body> <!-- Key to entities used below: א ... ו - The first six Hebrew letters (strongly RTL). ‭ - The LRO (left-to-right-override) formatting character. ‬ - The PDF (pop directional formatting) formatting character; closes LRO. --> <!-- If the BDI in the following DIV were a SPAN, its b would prevent the א and the ב from forming a single RTL run and thus keep the >s between from being mirrored into <s. --> <div dir="ltr">א > <bdi>[b]</bdi> > ג...</div> <div dir="ltr">א > <bdi dir="ltr">[b]</bdi> > ג...</div> <div dir="ltr">א > <bdi dir="rtl">[b]</bdi> > ג...</div> <div dir="rtl">a > <bdi>[ב]</bdi> > c...</div> <div dir="rtl">a > <bdi dir="ltr">[ב]</bdi> > c...</div> <div dir="rtl">a > <bdi dir="rtl">[ב]</bdi> > c...</div> </body></html>