HTML Meta Language Tag Obsolete

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

the meta language tag:

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="zh">

is now obsolete. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/meta.http-equiv.content-language.html

instead, use the “lang” attribute, like this:

<body lang="zh">…</body>

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