Language and characters (charset, hreflang)

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These attributes offer additional information about the character sets and language used in linked documents or external scripts.

Related elements:

charset attribute:

A, LINK, SCRIPT

hreflang attribute:

A, LINK

Attribute characteristics and purpose:

charset attribute:

specifies a character encoding group of the resource defined by the linking element

hreflang attribute:

specifies the base language of the resource defined by the href attribute
can be used only in combination with the href attribute

Example

HTML language attributes:

<html>

<head>
<title>HTML tutorial</title>
</head> 

<body>

<br />
<div>In the following link both attributes <br />(<b>charset="ISO-8859-1", hreflang="en"</b>) are used:<br />
<a href="http://www.brenkoweb.com/" charset="ISO-8859-1" hreflang="en">Brenko.web site!</a></div>

</body>

</html

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