lang
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 languages according to RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages (also known as BCP 47). 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. The syntax of this value is defined in RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages (also known as BCP 47).
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 orde-AT
for Austrian German.
Specifications
Specification |
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # LangSpaceAttrs |
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