Name

lang — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

The written language being used for the element’s attribute and property values. Other applications and search engines might use this information to aid selection of spellchecking dictionaries and creating indices.

Example

document.all.elementID.lang = "de"

Value

Case-insensitive language code.

Default

Browser default.

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