HTMLLinkElement: hreflang property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The hreflang property of the HTMLLinkElement interface is used to indicate the language and the geographical targeting of a page. This hint can be used by browsers to select the more appropriate page or to improve SEO.

It reflects the hreflang attribute of the <link> element and is the empty string ("") if there is no hreflang attribute.

Value

A string that contains a language tag, or the empty string ("") if there is no hreflang attribute.

Example

html
<link
  rel="alternate"
  href="www.example.com/fr/html"
  hreflang="fr"
  type="text/html"
  title="French HTML" />
<p class="tag"></p>
css
.tag {
  margin-left: 20px;
  font: bold;
  font-size: 24px;
}
js
const myLink = document.querySelector("link");
const pTag = document.querySelector(".tag");
pTag.textContent = myLink.hreflang;

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Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-link-hreflang

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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