wp-includes/general-template.php:4539Gets the language attributes for the 'html' tag.
$doctypestringoptional'html'stringOne hook fires while get_language_attributes() runs, in this order:
Filters the language attributes for display in the 'html' tag.
function get_language_attributes( $doctype = 'html' ) { $attributes = array(); if ( function_exists( 'is_rtl' ) && is_rtl() ) { $attributes[] = 'dir="rtl"'; } $lang = get_bloginfo( 'language' ); if ( $lang ) { if ( 'text/html' === get_option( 'html_type' ) || 'html' === $doctype ) { $attributes[] = 'lang="' . esc_attr( $lang ) . '"'; } if ( 'text/html' !== get_option( 'html_type' ) || 'xhtml' === $doctype ) { $attributes[] = 'xml:lang="' . esc_attr( $lang ) . '"'; } } $output = implode( ' ', $attributes ); /** * Filters the language attributes for display in the 'html' tag. * * @since 2.5.0 * @since 4.3.0 Added the `$doctype` parameter. * * @param string $output A space-separated list of language attributes. * @param string $doctype The type of HTML document (xhtml|html). */ return apply_filters( 'language_attributes', $output, $doctype );}Introduced in 4.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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