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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11734 Summary: Document the special effect of dir=auto on <pre> and <textarea> Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows NT Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org This originally appeared as bug 10808 comment 51. While most of the directional effects of the dir attribute (like those of the bdo and bdi elements) are explicitly documented, it is not documented that the <pre> and <textarea> elements significantly modify the effects of dir=auto (by setting unicode-bidi:plaintext). That this happens only in the presentation layer, via the default sylesheet, is irrelevant: the effects of <bdo> are also entirely defined by the default stylesheet, but are nevertheless explicitly documented. I would therefore suggest something like the following note under the description of the dir attribute, perhaps after "For example, the rendering section in this specification defines a mapping from this attribute to the CSS 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties, and CSS defines rendering in terms of those properties."): "Please note that this mapping is significantly augmented for the pre and textarea elements, where dir=auto results in unicode-bidi:plaintext, which determines the base direction of each bidi paragraph of these elements' content independently." -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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