<menclose>

Non-standard: This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The <menclose> MathML element renders its content inside an enclosing notation specified by the notation attribute.

Attributes

This element's attributes include the global MathML attributes.

notation Non-standard

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 browser Description
longdiv (default) Longdiv sample rendering. a2+b2 long division symbol
actuarial Actuarial sample rendering. a2+b2 actuarial symbol
box Box sample rendering. a2+b2 box
roundedbox Roundedbox sample rendering. a2+b2 rounded box
circle Circle sample rendering. a2+b2 circle
left Left sample rendering. a2+b2 line to the left of the contents
right Right sample rendering. a2+b2 line to the right of the contents
top Top sample rendering. a2+b2 line above of the contents
bottom Bottom sample rendering. a2+b2 line below of the contents
updiagonalstrike Updiagonalstrike sample rendering. a2+b2 strikeout line through contents from lower left to upper right
downdiagonalstrike Downdiagonalstrike sample rendering. a2+b2 strikeout line through contents from upper left to lower right
verticalstrike Verticalstrike sample rendering. a2+b2 vertical strikeout line through contents
horizontalstrike Horizontalstrike sample rendering. a2+b2 horizontal strikeout line through contents
madruwb Madruwb sample rendering. a2+b2 Arabic factorial symbol
updiagonalarrow Madruwb sample rendering. a2+b2 diagonal arrow
phasorangle Phasorangle sample rendering. a2+b2 phasor angle

Examples

html
<math display="block">
  <menclose notation="circle box">
    <mi>x</mi>
    <mo>+</mo>
    <mi>y</mi>
  </menclose>
</math>

Sample rendering:

Circle and box values applied at the same time.

Rendering in your browser:

Technical summary

Specifications

The <menclose> element is not defined in any browser-oriented specification but you can find a description in MathML 4.

Browser compatibility

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