<input>: The Input (Form Input) element - HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
required for accessibility autocomplete all hint for form autofill feature autofocus all automatically focus the form control when the page is loaded capture file media capture input method in file upload controls checked radio, checkbox whether the command or control is checked dirname text, search name of form field to use for sending the element's directionality in form submission disabled all whether the form control is disabled form all associates the control with a form element formaction image, submit url to use for form submission formenctype image, submit form data set encoding type to use for form submis...
... dirname valid for text and search input types only, the dirname attribute enables the submission of the directionality of the element.
... when included, the form control will submit with two name/value pairs: the first being the name and value, the second being the value of the dirname as the name with the value of ltr or rtl being set by the browser.
... <form action="page.html" method="post"> <label>fruit: <input type="text" name="fruit" dirname="fruit.dir" value="cherry"></label> <input type="submit"/> </form> <!-- page.html?fruit=cherry&fruit.dir=ltr --> when the form above is submitted, the input cause both the name / value pair of fruit=cherry and the dirname / direction pair of fruit.dir=ltr to be sent.

PR_OpenAnonFileMap
creates or opens a named semaphore with the specified name syntax #include <prshma.h> nspr_api( prfilemap *) pr_openanonfilemap( const char *dirname, prsize size, prfilemapprotect prot ); parameters the function has the following parameters: dirname a pointer to a directory name that will contain the anonymous file.
... on unix platforms, pr_openanonfilemap uses dirname as a directory name, without the trailing '/', to contain the anonymous file.
... on windows platforms, dirname is ignored.

IO - Archive of obsolete content
if the name 'subdirname' refers to a directory, then the returned object will refer to this directory.
...var file = io.getfile("profile", "subdirname"); for more information about using directories, see working with directories.

XUL Questions and Answers - Archive of obsolete content
popup"> <menupopup id="abpopup-menupopup" ref="moz-abdirectory://" datasources="rdf:addressdirectory" sortactive="true" sortdirection="ascending" sortresource="http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#dirtreenamesort"> <template> <rule nc:iswriteable="false"/> <rule nc:ismaillist="false"> <menuitem uri="..." label="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#dirname" value="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#diruri"/> </rule> <rule nc:ismaillist="true"> <menuitem uri="..." label="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#dirname" value="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#diruri"/> </rule> </template> </menupopup> </menulist> it should be written as follows: <menulist id="abpopup22"> <menupopup id=...
..."abpopup-menupopup" ref="moz-abmdbdirectory://abook.mab" datasources="rdf:addressdirectory" sortactive="true" sortdirection="ascending" sortresource="http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#dirtreenamesort"> <template> <rule nc:iswriteable="false"/> <rule nc:ismaillist="true"> <menuitem uri="..." label="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#dirname" value="rdf:http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#diruri"/> </rule> </template> </menupopup> </menulist> drawwindow with transparent background possible?

Anonymous Shared Memory
first protocol server: fm = pr_openanonfilemap(dirname, size, filemapprot); addr = pr_memmap(fm); attr = pr_newprocessattr(); pr_processattrsetinheritablefilemap( attr, fm, shmname ); pr_createprocess(client); pr_destroyprocessattr(attr); ...
...pr_memunmap(addr); pr_closefilemap(fm); second protocol server: fm = pr_openanonfilemap(dirname, size, filemapprot); fmstring = pr_exportfilemapasstring( fm ); addr = pr_memmap(fm); ...

Address Book examples
erfaces.nsiabmanager); let alladdressbooks = abmanager.directories; while (alladdressbooks.hasmoreelements()) { let addressbook = alladdressbooks.getnext() .queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiabdirectory); if (addressbook instanceof components.interfaces.nsiabdirectory) { // or nsiabitem or nsiabcollection // alert ("directory name:" + addressbook.dirname); ...
... adding a mailing list first create a mailing list object and initialize it: var maillist = components.classes["@mozilla.org/addressbook/directoryproperty;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiabdirectory); maillist.ismaillist = true; now fill in the details you want to store: maillist.dirname = "my mailing list"; maillist.listnickname = "nickname for list"; maillist.description = "list description"; add the cards you want to include in the list: for (let i = 0; i < numcards; i++) maillist.addresslists.appendelement(card[i], false); now save the list: var parentdirectory = ...; // an nsiabdirectory for the parent of the mailing list.

HTMLInputElement - Web APIs
dirname string: returns / sets the directionality of the element.
... the following properties have been added: autocomplete, autofocus, dirname, files, formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate, formtarget, height, indeterminate, labels, list, max, min, multiple, pattern, placeholder, required, selectiondirection, selectionend, selectionstart, step, validationmessage, validity, valueasdate, valueasnumber, width, and willvalidate.

io/file - Archive of obsolete content
dirname(path) returns the path of the directory containing the given file.

Creating a Windows Inno Setup installer for XULRunner applications - Archive of obsolete content
[setup] appname=my app appvername=my app 1.0 apppublisher=mark finkle apppublisherurl=http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/getting_started_with_xulrunner appsupporturl=http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/getting_started_with_xulrunner appupdatesurl=http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/getting_started_with_xulrunner defaultdirname={pf}\my app defaultgroupname=my app allownoicons=yes outputdir=..\build\output outputbasefilename=myapp-1.0-win32 ; setupiconfile= compression=lzma solidcompression=yes [languages] name: english; messagesfile: compiler:default.isl [components] name: main; description: my app; types: full compact custom; flags: fixed name: runtime; description: xul runner runtime; types: full custom [tasks] nam...

Building SpiderMonkey with UBSan
/bin/sh if [ -z $1 ] ; then echo "usage: $0 <dirname>" elif [ -d $1 ] ; then echo "directory $1 already exists" else autoconf2.13 autoconf213 mkdir $1 cd $1 llvm_root="$home/llvm" sanflag="-fsanitize=undefined -fno-sanitize=alignment,float-cast-overflow,float-divide-by-zero,vptr -dxmalloc=myxmalloc" \ cc="$llvm_root/build/release+asserts/bin/clang" \ cxx="$llvm_root/build/release+asserts/bin/clang++" \ cflags="$sanflag" \ cxxflags="$sanflag" \ moz_llvm_hacks=1 \ ../configure --enable-debug --disable-optimize make -j 8 fi 3.

JSAPI Cookbook
create global variable __dirname to retrieve the current javascript file name, like in nodejs ...

Thread Sanitizer
/bin/sh if [ -z $1 ] ; then echo "usage: $0 <dirname>" elif [ -d $1 ] ; then echo "directory $1 already exists" else autoconf2.13 mkdir $1 cd $1 llvm_root="/path/to/llvm" cc="$llvm_root/build/bin/clang" \ cxx="$llvm_root/build/bin/clang++" \ cflags="-fsanitize=thread -fpic -pie" \ cxxflags="-fsanitize=thread -fpic -pie" \ ldflags="-fsanitize=thread -fpic -pie" \ ../configure --disable-debug --enab...

HTMLTextAreaElement - Web APIs
the following attributes have been added: autofocus, placeholder, dirname, wrap, maxlength, required, textlength, labels, selectionstart, selectionend, selectiondirection, validity, validationmessage, and willvalidate.

HTML attribute reference - HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
allowed values are ltr (left-to-right) or rtl (right-to-left) dirname <input>, <textarea> disabled <button>, <command>, <fieldset>, <input>, <keygen>, <optgroup>, <option>, <select>, <textarea> indicates whether the user can interact with the element.

<input type="range"> - HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
note: the following input attributes do not apply to the input range: accept, alt, checked, dirname, formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate, formtarget, height, maxlength, minlength, multiple, pattern, placeholder, readonly, required, size, src, and width.