The language_attributes() WordPress PHP function generates language attributes for the html tag.
Usage
<!DOCTYPE html> <html **<?php language_attributes(); ?>**> <head> ...
Parameters
$doctype(string) Optional: The type of HTML document. Accepts ‘xhtml’ or ‘html’. Default is ‘html’.
More information
See WordPress Developer Resources: language_attributes()
Examples
Default usage
This code snippet will generate the default language attributes for the html tag.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <head> ...
XHTML doctype
This code snippet will generate language attributes for an XHTML document.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html <?php language_attributes('xhtml'); ?>>
<head>
...
HTML doctype
This code snippet will generate language attributes for an HTML document.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes('html'); ?>>
<head>
...
Force language and text direction
This code snippet will generate language attributes and force the language to English and the text direction to left-to-right (LTR).
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> ...
Add custom language attribute
This code snippet will add a custom language attribute (in this case, ‘en-GB’) to the html tag.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html <?php language_attributes(); ?> lang="en-GB"> <head> ...