language_attributes() │ WP 2.1.0

Outputs attributes for the HTML tag <html> with the values of the current language: lang="ru-RU"

Builds a set of attributes for the HTML tag <html> HTML, containing the name of the site's language and the reading direction for the page.

1 time — 0.000125 sec (fast) | 50000 times — 2.85 sec (fast)

No Hooks.

null. Nothing. Outputs a string to the screen.

<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

$doctype(string): Type of the HTML document: xhtml or html.
Default: 'html'

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
...

If you have a site in Russian, then:

language_attributes();

// output: lang="ru-RU"

Since 2.1.0	Introduced.
Since 4.3.0	Converted into a wrapper for get_language_attributes().

function language_attributes( $doctype = 'html' ) {
	echo get_language_attributes( $doctype );
}