In <html> tag I have attribute lang. How do I reach it using .js. I want to use contains of lang as a variable. So as I understand it should start with var lang = ????
In jQuery:
var theLanguage = $('html').attr('lang');
alert(theLanguage);
If you wanna fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/NX367/
If you want to do it in plain Javascript, this site will explain better than I:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/domattribute.shtml
Pure js way
var lang = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].getAttribute("lang");
The easiest way to retrieve the lang attribute is to access the lang property on the read-only documentElement property on the document object:
document.documentElement.lang;