Intended audience: users, XHTML/HTML coders (using editors or scripting), script developers (PHP, JSP, etc.), CSS coders, Web project managers, and anyone who wants to know how language declarations work in current browsers.
These tests check whether user agents apply internationalization aspects described in the HTML5 section about the br element.
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Line breaks and bidirectional text
Snapshot summary, 2014-02-17
Firefox 27.0, Chrome 32.0.1700.107, Safari 6.1.1, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 19.0bdo element with a dir attribute works as expected on all browsers.bdo element has no dir attribute, although the spec says Authors must specify the dir attribute on this element, with the value ltr to specify a left-to-right override and with the value rtl to specify a right-to-left override
, only Safari followed the spec. All other browsers tested applied an override consistent with the direction of the parent element.
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BR separates bidi paragraph
A br element should separate paragraphs for the purposes of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.
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BR in inline ancestors
A br element should separate paragraphs for the purposes of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. If an inline element is broken around a bidi paragraph boundary (e.g. if split by a block or forced paragraph break), then the bidi control codes corresponding to the end of the element are added before the interruption and the codes corresponding to the start of the element are added after it. (In other words, any embedding levels or overrides started by the element are closed at the paragraph break and reopened on the other side of it.)
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