HTML hreflang attribute

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:12 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

hreflang

The purpose of the HTML hreflang attribute is to specify the language of the resource linked to by the href attribute of the element.

Supported elements

HTML hreflang attribute supports a and link elements.

Syntax

<ElementName href="link" hreflang="value" >.....</ElementName>

Where ElementName is any supported elements.

Type of value

Language code.

Value

A language code.

Default value

There is no default value of HTML hreflang attribute.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset.

Example of HTML hreflang attribute with a

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML hreflang attribute with a</title>
</head>
<body> 
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali/" hreflang="bn" >BBC Bangla </a>
</body>
</html>

Result

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Example of HTML hreflang attribute with a

Example of HTML hreflang attribute with link

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML hreflang attribute with link</title>
<link rel="index" href="https://www.w3resource.com/index.php" hreflang="en" />
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an example of HTML link element with hreflang attribute.</p> 
</body>
</html>

Result

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Example of HTML hreflang attribute with link

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