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Bug 19095 - 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.
Summary: As written, it seems that the lang IDL attribute just reflects the @lang attr...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-09-27 18:04 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-02-13 00:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-09-27 18:04:46 UTC 
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.

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Comment 1 Anne 2012-12-14 22:32:35 UTC 
The more useful variant might be added to the DOM: bug 16489. Although if lang can be repurposed that might be better.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-02-09 22:09:52 UTC 
What do browsers do?
Comment 3 Anne 2013-02-10 10:20:28 UTC 
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=no>.<script>w(document.body.lang == "")</script>

Yields true in Chrome / Firefox / Opera. Pretty sure implementations agree with the specification.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-02-13 00:06:51 UTC 
Yeah. Gonna leave this as is then.