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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>HTML Test: dir=auto, start with dir, then 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 while ignoring contained elements with an explicit dir of their own.
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).
ד - The Hebrew letter Dalet (strongly RTL).
ה - The Hebrew letter He (strongly RTL).
ו - The Hebrew letter Vav (strongly RTL).
</div>
<div class="test">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<div dir="ltr"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ref">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<div dir="ltr"><p dir="rtl">דהו</p>ABCאבג.</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>