<ruby>

Summary

The HTML <ruby> Element represents a ruby annotation. Ruby annotations are for showing pronounciation of East Asian characters.

• Content categories Flow content, phrasing content, palpable content.
• Permitted content Phrasing content.
• Tag omission None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
• Permitted parent elements See prose
• DOM interface HTMLElement

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

Example 1: Character

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

Example 2: Word

<ruby>
  明日 <rp>(</rp><rt>Ashita</rt><rp>)</rp>
</ruby>

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• <rt>
• <rp>