: The Ruby Fallback Parenthesis element - HTML | MDN (original) (raw)

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<ruby>
  漢 <rp>(</rp><rt>kan</rt><rp>)</rp> 字 <rp>(</rp><rt>ji</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>

This element only includes the global attributes.

Ruby annotations are for showing pronunciation of East Asian characters, like using Japanese furigana or Taiwanese bopomofo characters. The <rp> element is used in the case of lack of element support; the <rp> content provides what should be displayed in order to indicate the presence of a ruby annotation, usually parentheses.

This example uses ruby annotations to display the Romaji equivalents for each character.

<ruby>
  漢 <rp>(</rp><rt>Kan</rt><rp>)</rp> 字 <rp>(</rp><rt>ji</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>

body {
  font-size: 22px;
}

See the article about the element for further examples.

If your browser does not support ruby annotations, the result looks like this instead:

body {
  font-size: 22px;
}

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	Text
Tag omission	The end tag can be omitted if the element is immediately followed by an or another element, or if there is no more content in the parent element.
Permitted parents	A element. must be positioned immediately before or after an element.
Implicit ARIA role	No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles	Any
DOM interface	HTMLElement

Specification
HTML # the-rp-element