HTML Element: <bdi>
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The HTML <bdi>
element indicates material that might be formatted in a different direction
from other material surrounding the element. ‘bdi’ stands for ‘bi-directional
isolation’. It is new in HTML 5. A similar effect can usually be achieved using
the unicode-bidi
style applied to e.g. a span
element, but the semantic meaning is only conveyed by the <bdi>
element and in some cases browsers may ignore CSS, but not a
<bdi> element.
To create or access such
an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is
shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<bdi>bdi text</bdi>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("BDI");
x.textContent = "bdi text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("bdi text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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