Is the html "lang" attribute supported in all major browsers (i.e. IE, FF, Opera, Chrome, and Safari)? I googled it, but I couldn't find the answer.
Printable View
Is the html "lang" attribute supported in all major browsers (i.e. IE, FF, Opera, Chrome, and Safari)? I googled it, but I couldn't find the answer.
Create a few simple HTML files on your machine with the lang attribute, and load the file into your browser.
Then set the locale of the browser and see if what you see changes.
Umm...thanks, but that's not what I'm after. I just want to know if all the major browsers support the html "lang" attribute or not. Doing what you said wont work for that, as I'd need to have all major browsers installed on my computer, and I don't. I would have thought someone here would know the answer to that question, but I guess not...
Thanks anyway.
For this type of question, you're really asking about the html spec; it depends on what version. The html lang attribute is in HTML 4.01, which is old enough to be well supported on browsers that matter.
What's the newest html version?
I suggest you ask on a dedicated HTML authoring board then.
Besides, what is YOUR defnintion of "major browser"?
Most browsers seem to cohabit, once you've got past the "untick make this the default brower and never ask me again" step.
It's perfectly reasonable to have all those browsers installed. That's pretty much required for web development actually.
There are just too many minor differences between browsers. Testing is the only way to find out.
Usually, though, if something works in IE and in FF, I will be 95% sure it will work in all browsers, since there are really 2 types of browsers in use today - IE and standard compliant browsers (everything else). So IE + something else will usually do.
Discrepancies between non-IE browsers are usually minor and cosmetic, with no impact on functionality.
HTML 5 (Though it is still a working draft at this time).
I'm writing a web coder program which can code in several different web languages including html. Currently, I am working on an html interface using html 4.0.1.
Would any of you recommend I use Html 5 instead? I'm thinking a lot of websites will use html version 4.0.1 for a while longer, so I was going to code first for html 4.0.1, and then maybe later, once html 5 is fully developed and in use, I'll add the functionality in for that version.
I think that would be a good idea (to go with 4 first), since browser supports for HTML 5 are still very incomplete, so even if you can output HTML 5, you won't have browsers to test it with, therefore it probably won't work with real HTML 5 browsers when they come out.Quote:
Would any of you recommend I use Html 5 instead? I'm thinking a lot of websites will use html version 4.0.1 for a while longer, so I was going to code first for html 4.0.1, and then maybe later, once html 5 is fully developed and in use, I'll add the functionality in for that version.
I would imagine documentation (in terms of Google results) is very lacking, too, since no one is using it yet.
Well, actually, I already found some documentation for html 5, such as the documentation at w3schools.com, but I don't know how complete it is. So yeah, I'll go with html 4 for now.
Thanks for the confirmation.
You can code with html5 like you would in html4.01. There's alot of compatibility in html5.