Navigator: language 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 language
read-only property of the Navigator
interface returns a string representing the preferred language of the user, usually the language of the browser UI.
Value
A string representing the language version in BCP 47 language tag format. Examples of valid language tags include en
, en-US
, fr
, fr-FR
, es-ES
, etc.
Note that in Safari on iOS prior to 10.2, the country code returned is lowercase: "en-us", "fr-fr" etc.
Examples
>Using Intl constructors to do language-specific formatting
The Intl
constructors allow formatting content to match the rules of a given locale. You can pass navigator.language
to them to format content in the locale corresponding to the user's preferred language:
const date = new Date("2012-05-24");
const formattedDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(navigator.language).format(date);
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML> # dom-navigator-language-dev> |
Browser compatibility
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