WorkerNavigator: language property

{{APIRef("HTML DOM")}}{{AvailableInWorkers("worker")}}

The WorkerNavigator.language read-only property returns a string representing the preferred language of the user, usually the language of the browser UI.

Value

A string representing the language version as a {{glossary("BCP 47 language tag")}}, for example en, en-US, fr, fr-FR, es-ES, etc.

Note that in Safari on iOS prior to 10.2, the country code returned is lowercase: "en-us", "fr-fr" etc.

Examples

You can run this insert a web worker:

if (/^en\b/.test(navigator.language)) {
  doLangSelect(window.navigator.language);
}

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• {{domxref("WorkerNavigator.languages")}}
• {{domxref("WorkerNavigator")}}