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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.
Jul 7, 2011 · 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:
Mar 3, 2014 · Language tags are used to indicate the language of text or other items in HTML and XML documents. Use the lang attribute to specify language tags in HTML, and the xml:lang attribute for XML. In both cases, language information is inherited by elements inside the one where the declaration was made, unless one of those elements declares a ...
The lang (or sometimes the xml:lang ) attribute specifies the natural language of the content of a web page. An attribute on the html tag sets the language for all the text on the page. If part of the page uses text in a different language, you can add a language attribute with a different value to the element that surrounds that content.
lang = language-code [CI] This attribute specifies the base language of an element's attribute values and text content. The default value of this attribute is unknown. Language information specified via the lang attribute may be used by a user agent to control rendering in a variety of ways. Some situations where author-supplied language ...
The lang and xml:lang attributes; RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages; Accessibility Support. There are differences in how assistive technologies handle unknown and invalid language tags. Some will default to the language of the page, whereas others will default to the closest ancestor with a valid lang attribute.
Aug 14, 2013 · Quick answer. The best way to style content by language in HTML is to use the :lang selector in your CSS style sheet. For example: :lang(ta) { font-family: Latha, "Tamil MN", serif; font-size: 120%; } The rest of the article adds some detail about :lang, and compares with two other approaches.
The language of the page can be set by other methods than the lang attribute, for example using HTTP headers or the meta element. These methods are not supported by all assistive technologies. This rule assumes that these other methods are insufficient to satisfying Success Criterion 3.1.1: Language of Page. This rule assumes that user agents ...
The rule assumes that having lang and xml:lang attributes with matching primary language subtags but non-matching language tags overall, will not cause accessibility issues. This is not necessarily the case for all languages. One notable case is the language tags for Cantonese ( zh-yue) and Mandarin ( zh-cmn) where the primary language subtags ...
Description. The objective of this technique is to identify the default language of a document by providing the lang and/or xml:lang attribute on the html element. Identifying the language of the document is important for a number of reasons: It allows braille translation software to substitute control codes for accented characters, and insert ...
