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sunnish reddy
405 Pointswhy we use this <html lang="en">
whats the difference for using lang="en" and not using that only using html
3 Answers
doesitmatter
12,885 PointsThe HTML lang attribute can be used to declare the language of a Web page or a portion of a Web page. This is meant to assist search engines and browsers.
According to the W3C recommendation you should declare the primary language for each Web page with the lang attribute inside the <html> tag, like this:
Amiruddin Amri
4,624 Pointswhat are the impact on our website if we not include the lang attribute?
Edvaldo Neto
Courses Plus Student 465 PointsThe lang attribute means the language that your website was built on.