lang
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The lang attribute specifies the primary language used in contents and attributes containing text content of particular elements.
There is also an xml:lang attribute (with namespace). If both of them are defined, the one with namespace is used and the one without is ignored.
In SVG 1.1 there was a lang attribute defined with a different meaning and only applying to <glyph> elements. That attribute specified a list of BCP 47 language tags. The glyph was meant to be used if the xml:lang attribute exactly matched one of the languages given in the value of this parameter, or if the xml:lang attribute exactly equaled a prefix of one of the languages given in the value of this parameter such that the first tag character following the prefix was "-".
You can use this attribute with any SVG element.
Example
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<text lang="en-US">This is some English text</text>
</svg>
Usage notes
| Value | <language-tag> |
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| Default value | None |
| Animatable | No |
<language-tag>-
This value specifies the language used for the element as a valid BCP 47 language tag.
The most common syntax is a value formed by a lowercase two-character part for the language and an uppercase two-character part for the region or country, separated by a minus sign, e.g.,
en-USfor US English orde-ATfor Austrian German.
Specifications
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # LangSpaceAttrs |
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