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defining documents language in HTML 10 months 3 weeks ago #50499

Nairb
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Hi,

If I want to write a page in Dutch - language code - nl , where do I replace "en" in beginnign of my document.

My understandign is it is only in the lang="" section like this

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="nl">

as the other en/EN refer to the coding language and not the language of the website. Is this correct?

Thanks

Brian

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defining documents language in HTML 10 months 3 weeks ago #50513

tessa
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Hi Brian, and welcome to OSTraining. Happy to have you here! :-)

[Language] - This is the "Public Text Language"; the natural language encoding system used in the creation of the referenced object. It is written as an ISO 639 language code (uppercase, two letters.) HTML/XHTML DTDs are usually (always?) written in English ("EN".)

Also check out this "How to" on changing doctype languages:

www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8531.htm

Warm Regards,

Tessa Mero

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defining documents language in HTML 10 months 3 weeks ago #50575

Nairb OFFLINE OSTarter Posts: 18 Karma: 0	Thanks Tessa, much appreciated.
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defining documents language in HTML 10 months 3 weeks ago #50583

edandrea OFFLINE OSTop Dog Posts: 3106 Thank you received: 7 Karma: 0	Hi Brian, On behalf of Tessa, and the rest of the team, you are most welcome. Glad you're with us and let us know if you run into any other questions. Cheers, Ed
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