<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>HTML Test: dir=auto, start with dir, then L</title> <link rel="reference" href="dir_auto-contained-dir-L-ref.html" /> <link rel="author" title="Matitiahu Allouche" href="mailto:matitiahu.allouche@google.com" /> <link rel="author" title="Oren Roth" href="mailto:oren.roth@gmail.com" /> <link rel="author" title="Simon Montagu" href="mailto:smontagu@smontagu.org" /> <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-dir-attribute" /> <meta name="assert" content=" When dir='auto', the direction is set according to the first strong character of the text while ignoring contained elements with an explicit dir of their own. In this test, it is the Hebrew letter Dalet, thus the direction must be resolved as RTL. This is a variation of the original dir_auto-contained-dir-L.html in which the explicit dir is unset by script after loading the page" /> <style> input, textarea { font-size:1em; } body { font-size:2em; } .test, .ref { border: medium solid gray; width: 400px; margin: 20px; } .comments { display: none; } </style> <script type="text/javascript"> function setDirs(value) { var p1 = document.getElementById("p1"); p1.dir = value; var p1 = document.getElementById("p2"); p2.dir = value; } </script> </head> <body onload="setDirs('')"> <div class="instructions"><p>Test passes if the two boxes below look exactly the same.</p></div> <div class="comments"> Key to entities used below: א - The Hebrew letter Alef (strongly RTL). ב - The Hebrew letter Bet (strongly RTL). ג - The Hebrew letter Gimel (strongly RTL). ד - The Hebrew letter Dalet (strongly RTL). ה - The Hebrew letter He (strongly RTL). ו - The Hebrew letter Vav (strongly RTL). </div> <div class="test"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="auto"><p id="p1" dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div> </div> <div dir="rtl"> <div dir="auto"><p id="p2" dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div> </div> </div> <div class="ref"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="rtl"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div> </div> <div dir="rtl"> <div dir="rtl"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>