Intended audience: users, HTML coders, script developers, CSS coders, Web project managers, and anyone who wants to know whether browsers shape Arabic and other cursive text as described in the CSS Text module.
These tests check whether user agents correctly join or separate cursive characters according to style changes applied to them, as indicated by the CSS Text spec.
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Tests in this section check whether joining is broken or not for simple cases concerning ordinary adjacent letters when one letter is in markup to which styling may apply. Most of the tests use Arabic.
This test puts markup around a letter, but applies no styling change, so joins must not be broken.
These tests create no effective change in the formatting for the affected letters, so joins must not be broken.
These tests do create a change in the formatting, but joining should not be broken.
These tests are for features that must break the joining behaviour.
Dependencies
bdi and dir=auto.In this section we run basic tests against languages that use other cursive writing systems, as a quick check that the same results apply.
This section runs the same tests as before, but the span element is around a diacritic that appears between the to joining letters. Since styling of the diacritic doesn't affect the joining letters, the same behaviour should apply as for the tests in the previous section.
These tests are exploratory. They look at the behaviour produced when the letter with markup around it is displayed as part of a ligated sequence. In theory, this is what the spec refers to as a situation where it is impossible to join across boundaries. We would expect all the tests to break the join.
Dependencies
bdi and dir=auto.