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lang Example JavaScript (JS)

Description: Illustrates the JavaScript syntax for the Anchor Object lang Property .

Syntax: object.lang=language-code – Allows you to retrieve or assign language of text for an element.

lang Example JavaScript (JS) Code:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: lang </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <input id="Button1" type="button" lang="en-us" value="button" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button2" type="button" lang="es" value="hola" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button3" type="button" lang="fr-ca" value="bon" /><br /><br />
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object - Standard Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // lang
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.lang=language-code  Allows you to retrieve or assign  
       //               language to an element
 
       // Two ways to retrieve lang   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0];
            document.write("Using getElementsByTagName: " + myObject.lang);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('Button1').lang);
 
            document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign lang
 
            //   1. GetElementById
            mySecondButton = document.getElementById('Button2');
            mySecondButton.lang = "es-mx";
            document.write("<br />Language changed to es-mx: ", mySecondButton.lang);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myThirdButton = document.getElementsByTagName('input')[2];
            myThirdButton.lang = "fr";
            document.write("<br />Language changed to fr: ", myThirdButton.lang)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>