Where to specifiy the language of Document in HTML 5 when my page has two languages?

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Jitendra Vyas picture Jitendra Vyas · Oct 10, 2011 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Bare Bones HTML5</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

If my webpage has some part in Danish and some in English then How I should define the language of the page in HTML?

Answer

kapa picture kapa · Oct 10, 2011

You can only define one language as the HTML's primary language. There can be only one language (no multiple values) specified for the <html> tag's lang attribute. But you can define a different language for some parts of the page.

For example:

<html lang="en">
...
<p lang="de">Ja, Deutsch.</p>

See the HTML5 spec for further info.

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