The <bdi> element

Short for ‘Bidirectional Isolation’. Text that needs to be isolated from the rest of the text when working out how to display bidirectional text (combining left-to-right and right-to-left text in the same paragraph).

Full list of attributes

All the usual HTML global attributes are available

dir

Unlike with other elements, this defaults to auto instead of inheriting from its parent when it's not present.

Further information

• Official specification for <bdi> element