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Declaring language in HTML - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) When serving XHTML 1 x or polyglot pages as text html, use both the lang attribute and the xml:lang attribute together every time you want to set the language The xml:lang attribute is the standard way to identify language information in XML
8 Language information and text direction - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The lang attribute set for the element itself The closest parent element that has the lang attribute set (i e , the lang attribute is inherited) The HTTP "Content-Language" header (which may be configured in a server) For example: Content-Language: en-cockney User agent default values and user preferences
HTML page has lang attribute | ACT Rule | WAI | W3C HTML page lang attribute has valid language tag; HTML page language subtag matches default language; Bibliography Understanding Success Criterion 3 1 1: Language of Page; H57: Using language attributes on the html element; RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages; The lang and xml:lang attributes; Accessibility Requirements Mapping 3 1 1
Language tags in HTML and XML - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XHTML 1 0 uses language tags in the HTML lang attribute and the XML xml:lang attribute, as well as the hreflang attribute HTTP uses language tags in the Accept-Language and Content-Language headers SMIL and SVG can use language tags in the switch statement CSS and XSL use language tags for detailed style control
H57: Using the language attribute on the HTML element - W3C Check that the html element has a lang attribute Check that the value of the lang attribute conforms to BCP 47: Tags for Identifying Languages; Matching of Language Tags or its successor and reflects the primary language used by the web page Expected Results Checks #1 and #2 are true Test Rules The following are Test Rules related to this
Working with language in HTML (tutorial) Use the :lang pseudo-class in CSS to apply styles dependent on the language of your content Why declare language? This part of the tutorial sets the motivation for reading the remainder If you are in a hurry and just want to know what to do, without the theory, start reading from the section How to declare the language of a page or element
HTTP headers, meta elements and language information Unlike a lang attribute on an HTML element, if your intended audience speaks more than one language, the HTTP header allows you to use a comma-separated list of languages Content-Language: en, hi, pa The Content-Language header is associated with a particular page by settings on the server or by server-side scripting
HTML page lang attribute has valid language tag This rule checks that the lang attribute of the root element of a non-embedded HTML page has a language tag with a known primary language subtag Applicability This rule applies to any document element if it is an html element for which all the following are true: has a lang attribute that is neither empty (“”) nor only ASCII whitespace; and
xml:lang in XML document schemas - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The xml:lang value applies to any sub-elements contained by the element It also applies to attribute values associated with the element and sub-elements (though using natural language in attributes is not best practice) The value of the xml:lang attribute is a language tag defined by BCP 47 For example, here is xml:lang on an element t:
Styling using language attributes - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Using :lang Use of :lang is straightforward If the document is parsed as HTML, the :lang selector will match content where the language was defined using a lang attribute value However, if the document is parsed as XML, the :lang selector will match content labeled with an xml:lang attribute value and ignore any lang attribute value Using