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Element Language

The lang attribute is used to specify the language of element content and attribute text values: The content of this element is in English. The content of this el...

HTML • Content Languages

Elements with Multiple Languages

You can "overwrite" a language declaration: This English sentence contains the German word Hallo.

HTML • Content Languages

Handling Attributes with Different Languages

You can "overwrite" a parent element's language declaration by introducing any element apart from applet, base, basefont, br, frame, frameset, hr, iframe, meta, param, script (of HTML 4.0) with an own lang attribute: ...

HTML • Content Languages

Base Document Language

It’s a good practice to declare the primary language of the document in the html element: <html lang="en"> If no other lang attribute is specified in the document, it means that everything (i.e., element content and attribute text values) is in that language. If the document con...

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Regional URLs

It is possible to add the attribute hreflang to the elements <a> and <area> that create hyperlinks. Such it specifies the language of the linked resource. The language defined must be a valid BCP 47[1] language tag. <a href="example.org" hreflang="en&quo...

HTML • Content Languages