bdo

Form

<bdo> ... </bdo>

Attributes

attribute default description
id none specifies the unique ID
class none specifies the style sheet class
style none specifies the style sheet
dir none specifies the text direction(ltr, rtl)

Support

HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE4 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 7 or later][Netscape 7 or later]

Explanation

The bdo tag specifies the display direction of the text. If you specified that it was displayed from right to left, Safari will reflect the effect of this tag only for a punctuation but display a regular text from left to right.

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<p>
You can specify how to display texts.<br>
<bdo dir="rtl">Texts are displayed from right direction.</bdo>
</p>
</body>
</html>