BDO Element

Bi-Directional override bdo is a formatting element and is used for text direction. It can be defined in two ways.

• rtl right to left
• ltr left to right

By using bdo you can define text direction.

Syntax

<bdo dir=rtl>Content</bdo>

Or

<tag><bdo dir=ltr>Content</bdo></tag>

You can apply bdo element to any element and use any where within a HTML document.

bdo is a pair tag and output of bdo element is text direction like you can see in above example.

Practice Task

Open notepad or any other text editor, follow the following points.

• Write any text in right to left direction
• Now change text direction from left to right using <bdo> element

save file with name task.html or task.htm and then open it using any browser and see results.

Don't forget bdo is non empty element which means it always comes in pair.

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