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4.1. Common Attributes
4.1. Common Attributes
The following attributes occur in several of the elements and are
defined here for brevity. In general, all attribute names and values
in this specification are case insensitive, except where noted
otherwise. The ID, CLASS and attributes are required for use with
style sheets, while LANG and DIR are needed for internationalization.
<!ENTITY % attrs
"id ID #IMPLIED -- element identifier --
class NAMES #IMPLIED -- for subclassing elements --
lang NAME #IMPLIED -- as per RFC 1766 --
dir (ltr|rtl) #IMPLIED -- I18N text direction --">
- ID
-
Used to define a document-wide identifier. This can be used for
naming positions within documents as the destination of a
hypertext link. It may also be used by style sheets for
rendering an element in a unique style. An ID attribute value is
an SGML NAME token. NAME tokens are formed by an initial letter
followed by letters, digits, "-" and "." characters. The letters
are restricted to A-Z and a-z.
- CLASS
-
A space separated list of SGML NAME tokens. CLASS names specify
that the element belongs to the corresponding named classes. It
allows authors to distinguish different roles played by the same
tag. The classes may be used by style sheets to provide
different renderings as appropriate to these roles.
- LANG
-
A LANG attribute identifies the natural language used by the
content of the associated element.The syntax and registry of
language values are defined by RFC 1766. In summary the language
is given as a primary tag followed by zero or more subtags,
separated by "-". White space is not allowed and all tags are
case insensitive. The name space of tags is administered by
IANA. The two letter primary tag is an ISO 639 language
abbreviation, while the initial subtag is a two letter ISO 3166
country code. Example values for LANG include:
en, en-US, en-uk, i-cherokee, x-pig-latin.
- DIR
-
Human writing systems are grouped into scripts, which determine
amongst other things, the direction the characters are written.
Elements of the Latin script are nominally left to right, while
those of the Arabic script are nominally right to left. These
characters have what is called strong directionality. Other
characters can be directionally neutral (spaces) or weak
(punctuation).
The DIR attribute specifies an encapsulation boundary which
governs the interpretation of neutral and weakly directional
characters. It does not override the directionality of strongly
directional characters. The DIR attribute value is one of LTR
for left to right, or RTL for right to left, e.g. DIR=RTL.
When applied to TABLE, it indicates the geometric layout of rows
(i.e. row 1 is on right if DIR=RTL, but on the left if DIR=LTR)
and it indicates a default base directionality for any text in
the table's content if no other DIR attribute applies to that
text.
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