How to get the value of the lang attribute with jQuery?

Question

Suppose I have an HTML document that looks like this:

<html lang="en">
...
</html>

My question is: how to get the value of the attribute lang with jQuery?
I've tried $("html").attr("lang") but it did not work... any suggestions?

OneOfOne · Accepted Answer

Access the attribute directly, ex :

$('html')[0].lang

Josh Crozier · Answer

You don't need to use jQuery for this.

The easiest way to retrieve the lang attribute is to access the lang property on the read-only documentElement object:

document.documentElement.lang;

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