WindowEventHandlers.onlanguagechange

The onlanguagechange property of the WindowEventHandlers mixin is the EventHandler for processing languagechange events.

These events are received by the object implementing this interface, usually a Window, an HTMLBodyElement, or an HTMLIFrameElement. Such an event is sent by the browser to inform that the preferred languages list has been updated. The list is accessible via NavigatorLanguage.languages.

Syntax

object.onlanguagechange = function;

Value

• function is the name of a user-defined function, without the () suffix or any parameters, or an anonymous function declaration, such as function(event) {...}. An event handler always has one single parameter, containing the event, here of type Event.

Example

window.onlanguagechange = function(event) {
  console.log('languagechange event detected!');
};

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• The languagechange event and its type, Event