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In the dir attribute spec[1], textarea and input(with type attribute is in the Text, Search, Telephone, URL, or E-mail state) elements have the same behavior: "If the element's value contains a character of bidirectional character type AL or R, and there is no character of bidirectional character type L anywhere before it in the element's value, then the directionality of the element is 'rtl'. [BIDI]" However differently from textarea, input element does not have any css rule for bidirectional text[2]. The textarea rule is: textarea[dir=auto i]{ unicode-bidi: plaintext; } [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#the-dir-attribute [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/Overview.html#bidirectional-text
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