english1 HEBREW1 english2 HEBREW2 english3
As you can see, the text beginning with HEBREW1 and ending with HEBREW2 is in tended as an inline quotation in Hebrew, which just happens to contain an English word Since HEBREW1 and HEBREW2 belong to the same block of Hebrew text, “2WERBEH” should be rendered to the left of “1WERBEH” With this in mind, the complete paragraph should be rendered as “english1 2WERBEH eng lish2 1WERBEH english3.” The HTML 4.0 standard (along with XHTML 1.0) defines the dir attribute and the bdo element to handle these complexities To obtain the desired rendering in an HTML4-compatible browser, the code should be:english1 HEBREW1 english2 HEBREW2 english3
The dir attribute of the q tag is what specifies the rendering order; the lang at tribute won’t have any actual visible effect For full details on language and bid irectional text rendering in HTML, refer to Section of the HTML 4.0 standard.56 So, where does CSS come into play, you ask? Well, the direction property, in combination with a unicode-bidi property setting of embed, performs the same role as the HTML dir attribute In combination with a unicode-bidi property setting of bidi-override, direction has the same effect as the HTML bdo tag However, it’s still considered best practice to include bidirectional text attributes as part of the HTML code The direction and unicode-bidi properties are in tended for use in styling XML documents that not have the benefit of HTML 4’s bidirectional text features Since the focus of this book is on web development, 55 56 http://www.unicode.org/ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html 458 Licensed to siowchen@darke.biz ... 1WERBEH english3.” The HTML 4.0 standard (along with XHTML 1.0) defines the dir attribute and the bdo element to handle these complexities To obtain the desired rendering in an HTML4 -compatible browser,... Version: This property is supported by all CSS-compatible browsers Example This style rule creates a one-centimeter hanging indent on all paragraphs by using a negative text-indent in combination... value: auto Compatibility CSS Version: This property is supported by all CSS-compatible browsers Example This style rule sets tables of class thumbnails to the quicker, fixed layout mode: table.thumbnails