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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>HTML Test: dir=auto, start with L</title>
<link rel="author" title="Matitiahu Allouche" href="mailto:matitiahu.allouche@google.com" />
<link rel="author" title="Oren Roth" href="mailto:oren.roth@gmail.com" />
<link rel="author" title="HTML5 bidi test WG" href="mailto:html5bidi@googlegroups.com" />
<meta name="assert" content="
When dir='auto', the direction is set according to the first strong character
of the text.
In this test, it is the Latin letter A, thus the direction must be
resolved as LTR." />
<style>
input, textarea {
font-size:1em;
}
body {
font-size:2em;
}
.test, .ref {
border: medium solid gray;
width: 400px;
margin: 20px;
}
.comments {
display: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="instructions"><p>Test passes if the two boxes below look exactly the same.</p></div>
<div class="comments">
Key to entities used below:
א - The Hebrew letter Alef (strongly RTL).
ב - The Hebrew letter Bet (strongly RTL).
ג - The Hebrew letter Gimel (strongly RTL).
</div>
<div class="test">
<div dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">ABCאבג.</p>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<p dir="ltr">ABCאבג.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ref">
<div dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">ABCאבג.</p>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<p dir="ltr">ABCאבג.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>