[whatwg] HTML: A DOM attribute that returns the language of a node

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at chromium.org> wrote:

> fwiw WebKit (and Blink) implement this through CSS inheritance since you
> need to know the lang for all kinds of things and walking up the DOM
> repeatedly would be expensive.
>
> -webkit-locale is inherited by default and contains the enclosing @lang
> value. You can query it through getComputedStyle(node).webkitLocale. That
> doesn't help your custom parser though.
>

Interesting. What does "body:lang(en) { -webkit-locale:fr; }" do? :-)

Rob
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