- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:38:21 +0100
- To: "HTML WG (public-html@w3.org)" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-test-infra@w3.org" <public-test-infra@w3.org>
Can anyone tell me whether there's a way to detect the inherited language of an element, other than by recursing up the tree looking for lang attributes? (I'm looking for something like computedvalue.) I'm asking because I'd like to know whether i can improve some tests that try to discover whether content-language, lang, and xml:lang are recognised by a browser[1]. Currently I use :lang to detect whether a language has been set. But I'm curious to know whether I can detect the language directly using javascript, since :lang may not be supported by some browsers. (If the language is detectable by javascript, of course it must reflect the language if obtained from content-language etc too - not just a lang attribute.) Thanks in advance, RI [1] http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/language-declarations/results-language-declarations -- Richard Ishida, W3C http://rishida.net/
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