hreflang

• Indicating the language of a link destination

Examples

In the a element in the following example, the HREFLANG attribute specifies the language code of the U.S. version of English.

<A HREF="http://example.microsoft.com/..." HREFLANG="en-US">anchor text</A>

Notes

Remarks

You must set the value of this property before you can retrieve it. Language codes identify natural languages that are spoken, written, or otherwise used for the communication of information among people, and are defined and explained in Internet-Draft: BCP 47. Computer languages are explicitly excluded from language codes.

hreflang was introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Syntax

Standards information

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, Section 2.5.5

See also

Related pages

• aa
• link

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]