bdo element
If you don't know what an element is or how you must use it, I recommend you read the "HTML tags and attributes" tutorial that you can find in the HTML tutorials section.
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Description
The bdo element overrides the bidirectional algorithm for its contents. This may be useful in situations where the bidirectional algorithm, responsible for automatically deciding the direction of a given piece of text, can be "confused" and incorrectly change the direction of text. The bdo element prevents the bidirectional algorithm from calculating the direction of the text it contains and instructs it to just use the direction provided in the dir attribute.
The presence of the dir attribute in the bdi element is mandatory. The omission of this attribute will produce a document non-conformant with the HTML5 standard.
Examples
In the following example, there's a paragraph in english that quotes a phrase in hebrew. To be sure that everything goes as expected, we're wrapping the hebrew phrase with the bdo element and specifying its direction as right-to-left (which we know is the right one).
<p>We may be again in one of those situations that the phrase <bdo dir="rtl">ידיעת שפה אחת אינה מספיקה</bdo> better describes.</p>
We may be again in one of those situations that the phrase ידיעת שפה אחת אינה מספיקה better describes.
Attributes
Global attributes
For information about global attributes refer to this list of global attributes in HTML5.
Events
Global events
For information about global events refer to this list of global events in HTML5.