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BoredOfBinary
BoredOfBinary

Reputation: 853

Extract lang value using JavaScript

I am trying to get the lang value from the HTML tag, but the current JavaScript I am using doesn't work.

This is the HTML code I am trying to access:

<html  lang="it-IT">

And the Javascript

if(navigator.appName == 'Netscape')
{
    langType = navigator.language;
}
else
{
    langType = navigator.browserLanguage;
}

but in testing I still get the value "EN-us"

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 24

Views: 37609

Answers (2)

Christoph
Christoph

Reputation: 169593

Use

document.documentElement.lang

As Rob has commented, your code gets the browser's language and not the document's.

Upvotes: 74

nickytonline
nickytonline

Reputation: 6981

try this

var language = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].getAttribute("lang");

I haven't tried it, but it should work.

Upvotes: 6

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