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…ersal. Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10823 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@6339 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Jul 29, 2011 · c52b51e · c52b51e
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@@ -62907,6 +62907,13 @@ <h4 id=the-session-history-of-browsing-contexts><span class=secno>6.4.1 </span>T
   <p class=example>For example, some user agents might want to
   persist the scroll position, or the values of form controls.</p>
 
+  <p class=note>User agents that persist the value of form controls
+  are encouraged to also persist their directionality (the value of
+  the element's <code title=attr-dir><a href=#the-dir-attribute>dir</a></code> attribute). This
+  prevents values from being displayed incorrectly after a history
+  traversal when the user had originally entered the values with an
+  explicit, non-default directionality.</p>
+
   <p>Entries that consist of <a href=#state-object title="state object">state
   objects</a> share the same <code><a href=#document>Document</a></code> as the entry for
   the page that was active when they were added.</p>

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -62779,6 +62779,13 @@ x === this; // true</pre>
   <p class=example>For example, some user agents might want to
   persist the scroll position, or the values of form controls.</p>
 
+  <p class=note>User agents that persist the value of form controls
+  are encouraged to also persist their directionality (the value of
+  the element's <code title=attr-dir><a href=#the-dir-attribute>dir</a></code> attribute). This
+  prevents values from being displayed incorrectly after a history
+  traversal when the user had originally entered the values with an
+  explicit, non-default directionality.</p>
+
   <p>Entries that consist of <a href=#state-object title="state object">state
   objects</a> share the same <code><a href=#document>Document</a></code> as the entry for
   the page that was active when they were added.</p>

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -71471,6 +71471,13 @@ x === this; // true</pre>
   <p class="example">For example, some user agents might want to
   persist the scroll position, or the values of form controls.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">User agents that persist the value of form controls
+  are encouraged to also persist their directionality (the value of
+  the element's <code title="attr-dir">dir</code> attribute). This
+  prevents values from being displayed incorrectly after a history
+  traversal when the user had originally entered the values with an
+  explicit, non-default directionality.</p>
+
   <p>Entries that consist of <span title="state object">state
   objects</span> share the same <code>Document</code> as the entry for
   the page that was active when they were added.</p>