Name
LANG — NN 3 IE 4 HTML 4
Synopsis
LANG=”languageCode"Optional
The language being used for the element’s attribute values and content. A browser can use this information to assist in proper rendering of content with respect to details such as treatment of ligatures (when supported by a particular font or required by a written language), quotation marks, and hyphenation. Other applications and search engines might use this information to aid selection of spell-checking dictionaries and creating indices.
Example
<B LANG="de">Deutsche Bundesbahn</B>
Value
Case-insensitive language code.
Default
Browser default.
Object Model Reference
- IE
[window.]document.all.elementID.lang
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