xml:lang - content-language

[Klaus Trapp]

Hello,

what's the difference between
- http-equiv="content-language" content="de" in a meta-tag and
- xml:lang="de" in html-tag?
All my webpages contain german text.

Klaus

www.trappdata.de

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

what's the difference between
- http-equiv="content-language" content="de" in a meta-tag and
- xml:lang="de" in html-tag?
All my webpages contain german text.

Not much difference. Both specify the default language for the entire
document. xml:lang has the higher priority - if you use both xml:lang (or
lang for HTML docs) and <meta http-equiv="content-language"..> the former
will override the latter.
The xml:lang or lang attribute has the advantage that you can use it on any
element - indicating that a single paragraph or even word has a different
language than the default language.