What is the <bdo> element in HTML?

The bi-directional text override <bdo> element tells the browser to override the directionality of the text with the one specified in the dir attribute.

Attributes

<bdo> supports all global attributes. The direction attribute dir takes on the following values for the directionality of the text:

dir

Description

ltr

represents if the text needs to be rendered from left-to-right


rtl

represents if the text needs to be rendered from right-to-left 

Code

In the above code, the text in the <bdo dir="rtl"> tag will be rendered from right-to-left even though its default direction is left-to-right.

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