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Asked: 2026-06-18T03:43:50+00:00

In HTML, it’s good to have a lang attribute in <html> , e.g. <html

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In HTML, it’s good to have a lang attribute in <html>, e.g. <html lang="en">.

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If this is used for translation, even if the language is set to English and there are all Chinese text in the document Google Translate detects it as Chinese, not English (this means Google ignores the lang attribute).

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  1. Editorial Team

    I am quoting this from W3C:

    Declaring language in HTML

    Always use a language attribute on the html tag to declare the default language of the text in the page. When the page contains content in another language, add a language attribute to an element surrounding that content.

    Use the lang attribute for pages served as HTML, and the xml:lang attribute for pages served as XML. For XHTML 1.x and HTML5 polyglot documents, use both together.

    Use language tags from the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

    Also a good read is Why use the language attribute?.

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