Closed Bug 1459745 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Docs for <bdi> are misleading

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: HTML, enhancement, P1)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
HTML
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: wbamberg, Assigned: ismith)

Details

The docs page (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bdi), and the example in the page, seem to suggest that you use the <bdi> element to get the browser to render embedded text that has a different directionality from the embedding text (for example, to present Arabic text inside English text). But this isn't true: <bdi> has a much more specific use than this. See https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples/pull/880#issuecomment-386463416 and in particular https://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/.
Priority: -- → P1
Assignee: nobody → ismith
Please ask me to review these, when they are ready.
Docs are updated and reviewed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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