On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +0200, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 13 lines which said: > I don't find dir="" in the HTML 4.01 spec., http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 > 8.2.2 Inheritance of text direction information ... > When the dir attribute is set for a block-level element, it remains > in effect for the duration of the element and any nested block-level > elements. Setting the dir attribute on a nested element overrides > the inherited value. The dir="" is probably here to reset the text direction to "I do not know", something which is impossible in HTML because of the inheritance. _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf