HTML: Meta Language Tag Obsolete

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

the meta language tag, e.g.

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

is now obsolete.

instead, use the โ€œlangโ€ attribute, like this:

<body lang="zh">text</body>

Reference

w3c meta lang 2023-02-20 FmTGT
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110113/meta.http-equiv.content-language.html