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VisualEditor: Add support for adding dir/lang attributes to paragraphs and similar arbitrary elements (div, p, lists etc.)
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In MediaWiki pages it is frequently required to write some text in a different languages, and possibly also with different directionality. For example, an quotation in English in an article in the Hebrew Wikipedia.

With the plain wikitext editor this can be achieved using HTML, for example <span lang="en" dir="ltr">. In some Wikipedias there are templates that do this.

There must be a way to do this using the VE GUI. For example, the user can select the text in a different language, open a dialog with "Language properties" and select "English language" and "Directionality: Left-to-right".

For reference and further details:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Bidirectional_text_requirements

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 12:47 AM
• bzimport added projects: VisualEditor-ContentLanguage, I18n.
• bzimport set Reference to bz41009.
Amire80 created this task.Oct 13 2012, 5:09 PM
Krinkle added a comment.Oct 13 2012, 7:54 PM
  • Bug 41010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Jul 5 2013, 5:34 AM
  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47759 ***
Amire80 added a comment.Jul 31 2013, 7:43 AM

<span> is done. Reopening for <div>.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 27 2014, 12:37 AM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 27 2014, 12:57 AM
Jdforrester-WMF lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Jan 9 2015, 10:55 PM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: Add support for adding dir/lang attributes to paragraphs and similar elements (div, p, lists etc.) to VisualEditor: Add support for adding dir/lang attributes to paragraphs and similar arbitrary elements (div, p, lists etc.).Apr 29 2015, 7:01 PM
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.
Jdforrester-WMF added a subtask: T62187: VisualEditor: Provide a language inspector to handle <div lang='xx' dir='yyy'> blocks and similar.
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM
Winston_Sung moved this task from Untriaged to RTL on the I18n board.Aug 9 2023, 2:22 PM
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