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Bug 20151 - Should the list of elements whose descendant text nodes do not determine the directionality of an element with dir=auto include input elements? Maybe other form elements as well?
Summary: Should the list of elements whose descendant text nodes do not determine the ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-11-29 09:56 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-03-27 23:21 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-11-29 09:56:31 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-dir-attribute
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-dir-attribute

Comment:
Should the list of elements whose descendant text nodes do not determine the
directionality of an element with dir=auto include input elements? Maybe other
form elements as well?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-02-08 05:59:33 UTC 
Why would it include input elements? They (in conforming documents) never have any descendants.