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The lang attribute specifies the primary language used in contents and attributes containing text content of particular elements.

There is also an {{SVGAttr("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 {{glossary("BCP 47 language tag", "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

html
<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

<table class="properties"> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Value</th> <td><code>&#x3C;language-tag></code></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Default value</th> <td><em>None</em></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Animatable</th> <td>No</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
  • <language-tag>

    • : This value specifies the language used for the element as a valid {{glossary("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-US for US English or de-AT for Austrian German.

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

  • {{glossary("BCP 47 language tag")}}