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Nov 30, 2003, 10:31 #1SitePoint Enthusiast
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doctype language - the language of teh content of coding?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
in the doctype decalration, is it declaring the language of the content, or a formality in declaring the language of the coding?
if it is the content then why do we need this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB">
and if we set a different language in this meta tag would it not conflict with the doctype declaration if it is referring to the language of the content?
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Dec 1, 2003, 09:36 #2Robert Wellock
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You have muddled up XHTML 1.x and HTML 4.01.
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Dec 1, 2003, 09:53 #3Ensure you finish what you sta
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See also this thread - http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?t=141074 where a similar problem is being discussed.
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Dec 1, 2003, 11:49 #4SitePoint Enthusiast
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Thanks for the link John.
I havent got the two mixed up, they were just samples of where this language declaration is used.
w3 seems to say that xml:lang="en" lang="en" is for content plus attribute values.
It however doesn't say what the language declaration in this line refers to <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
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