The MathML <menclose>
element renders its content inside an enclosing notation specified by the notation
attribute.
Attributes
- class, id, style
- Provided for use with stylesheets.
- href
- Used to set a hyperlink to a specified URI.
- mathbackground
- The background color. You can use
#rgb
,#rrggbb
and HTML color names. - mathcolor
- The text color. You can use
#rgb
,#rrggbb
and HTML color names. - notation
- A list of notations, separated by white space, to apply to the child elements. The symbols are each drawn as if the others are not present, and therefore may overlap. Possible values are:
Value Sample Rendering Rendering in
your browserDescription longdiv
(default)long division symbol actuarial
actuarial symbol radical
square root symbol. Deprecated. Use <msqrt>
instead.box
box roundedbox
rounded box circle
circle left
line to the left of the contents right
line to the right of the contents top
line above of the contents bottom
line below of the contents updiagonalstrike
strikeout line through contents from lower left to upper right downdiagonalstrike
strikeout line through contents from upper left to lower right verticalstrike
vertical strikeout line through contents horizontalstrike
horizontal strikeout line through contents madruwb
Arabic factorial symbol updiagonalarrow
diagonal arrow phasorangle
phasor angle
Examples
<math> <menclose notation="circle box"> <mi> x </mi> <mo> + </mo> <mi> y </mi> </menclose> </math>
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
MathML 3.0 The definition of 'menclose' in that specification. |
Recommendation | Current specification |
MathML 2.0 The definition of 'menclose' in that specification. |
Recommendation | Initial specification |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
menclose | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 1 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS Full support 7 | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
href | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 7 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 10 | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 7 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
mathbackground | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 4 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
mathcolor | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 4 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
notation | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 1 | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari
Full support
7
| WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.
Gecko-specific notes
- Addtional values for the
notation
attribute have been added in the following releases:madruwb
in Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4 / Thunderbird 3.3 / SeaMonkey 2.1).updiagonalarrow
in Gecko 24.0 (Firefox 24.0 / Thunderbird 24.0 / SeaMonkey 2.21)phasorangle
in Gecko 32.0 (Firefox 32.0 / Thunderbird 32.0 / SeaMonkey 2.29)