Using the Firefox Web Developer features, I encountered this: "Failure - The HTML (Root) element does not use the 'lang' attribute." Huh? I have the language thing in a META tag, but I've never heard of this one.
BlobFisk
2:27 pm on Jun 24, 2004 (gmt 0)
It's a internationalisation tag in HTML.
<html lang="en"> or <body lang="en"> sets the document language as English. You can then go <p lang="fr"> for a paragraph of French.
I suppose I could have checked w3c first. Duh. Thank ye for the helpful response.
aapbe
2:11 pm on Aug 5, 2004 (gmt 0)
I just discovered this today too. I always used <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN"> and <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="NL"> (for the Dutch version). Now I read here and there that the meta language tag is useless. Should I use <html lang="en"> and <html lang="du"> instead or just use nothing? This is particularly important for the Dutch version, since when I try to look for my Dutch pages in the Dutch language version of Google.be and Google.nl I can't find them, while in the English language Google I do find my Dutch pages.
