A page wih an excerpt from an Arabic translation of the GNU Free Documentation License. The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "ar", the language code for Arabic. However, there is no dir attribute on the html or the body element to specify right-to-left text direction. This means that user agents will assume the default text direction: left to right. Correct <html:code>lang</html:code> and <html:code>xml:lang</html:code> attributes and missing text direction for content in Arabic Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 draft Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute

This test case is intended to fail because primary language is correctly identified as Arabic but the text direction (right to left) is not specified.

 automatic

Can you determine the language and text direction of the text?

The browser can find the primary language but not the text direction of the document.

The text direction on the html and body elements is missing, so it is assumed to be the default value: left to right.