19095 2012-09-27 18:04:46 +0000 As written, it seems that the lang IDL attribute just reflects the @lang attribute of the element, and not the "language of the node". If so, this is not very useful. If not, the spec could be clarified. 2013-02-13 00:06:51 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk gregg ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 74662 0 contributor 2012-09-27 18:04:46 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes Comment: As written, it seems that the lang IDL attribute just reflects the @lang attribute of the element, and not the "language of the node". If so, this is not very useful. If not, the spec could be clarified. Posted from: 38.127.199.123 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/536.26.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.1 Safari/536.26.14 80207 1 annevk 2012-12-14 22:32:35 +0000 The more useful variant might be added to the DOM: bug 16489. Although if lang can be repurposed that might be better. 82863 2 ian 2013-02-09 22:09:52 +0000 What do browsers do? 82872 3 annevk 2013-02-10 10:20:28 +0000 <!DOCTYPE html><html lang=no>.<script>w(document.body.lang == "")</script> Yields true in Chrome / Firefox / Opera. Pretty sure implementations agree with the specification. 83071 4 ian 2013-02-13 00:06:51 +0000 Yeah. Gonna leave this as is then.