This is revision 1.5612.
rp
elementruby
element, either immediately before or immediately after an rt
element.HTMLElement
.The rp
element can be used to provide parentheses
around a ruby text component of a ruby annotation, to be shown by
user agents that don't support ruby annotations.
An rp
element that is a child of
a ruby
element represents
nothing and its contents must be
ignored. An rp
element whose
parent element is not a ruby
element
represents its children.
The example above, in which each ideograph in the text 漢字 is annotated with its
phonetic reading, could be expanded to use rp
so that in
legacy user agents the readings are in parentheses:
...
<ruby>漢<rp> (</rp><rt>かん</rt><rp>) </rp>字<rp> (</rp><rt>じ</rt><rp>) </rp></ruby>
...
In conforming user agents the rendering would be as above, but in user agents that do not support ruby, the rendering would be:
... 漢 (かん) 字 (じ) ...