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HTMLElement: lang property - Web APIs | MDN
HTMLElement: lang property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The lang property of the HTMLElement interface indicates the base language of an element's attribute values and text content, in the form of a BCP 47 language tag. It reflects the element's lang attribute; the xml:lang attribute does not affect this property.
Note that if the lang attribute is unspecified, the element itself may still inherit the language from its parent. However, that inherited language is not reflected by this property's value.
Value
A string. Common examples include "en" for English, "ja" for Japanese, "es" for Spanish and so on. If unspecified, the value is an empty string.
Examples
js
// this snippet compares the base language and
// redirects to another URL based on language
if (document.documentElement.lang === "en") {
window.location.href = "Some_document.html.en";
} else if (document.documentElement.lang === "ru") {
window.location.href = "Some_document.html.ru";
}
Specifications
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