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[Bug 16564] The directionality of a textarea should be determined based on its parent if its value does not have any strong characters

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:56:44 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16564

--- Comment #6 from Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> 2012-03-30 18:56:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> So smontagu and I discussed this and we suggest adding to the definition of
> 'text-align: start/end' that
>   | In the case of an empty bidi paragraph, the direction used is that of the
>   | previous bidi paragraph, or, if this is the first bidi paragraph in the
>   | containing block, then the 'direction' property is used.
> 
> That should handle the caret.

Right, but it won't handle other directionality specific UI effects that I
mentioned in comment 4.

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