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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>HTML Test: dir=auto, isolated in LTR text</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, but the element behaves externally as a neutral character.
In this test, it allows a preceding R to form a single directional run
with a succeeding number." />
<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).
‭ - The LRO (left-to-right override) formatting character.
‬ - The PDF (pop directional formatting) formatting character; closes LRO.
</div>
<div class="test">
<div dir="ltr">
‭1 a! א‬
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
‭a !א 1‬
</div>
</div>
<div class="ref">
<div dir="ltr">
‭1 a! א‬
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
‭a !א 1‬
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>