Title: Language switcher widget "lang" attribute missing
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Language switcher widget "lang" attribute missing
* [mijalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mijalis/)
* (@mijalis)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/)
* I am using the latest polylang version 1.8.
* It seems that the HTML lang attribute is missing from the text based language
switcher.
Generated code is similar to this: `![]()
Ελληνικά` The problem arises when themes use
the **text-transform:uppercase** CSS property. The uppercase property value works
properly only if the **lang HTML attribute** defines the correct language code,
for example: `Ελληνικά`
* Reference: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transform](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transform)
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* Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
* (@chouby)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969703)
* Hi!
* I made the test with Twenty Twelve which uses this css property in menu and the
Greek language appears as ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΆ instead of Ελληνικά. Is it incorrect? Adding
the lang attribute does not change anything.
* Thread Starter [mijalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mijalis/)
* (@mijalis)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969713)
* Yes it is incorrect.
It should display ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ (no accented characters) In
Greek (el), vowels lose their accent when the whole word is in uppercase (ά/Α)
Try this example:
* ```
Ελληνικά
Ελληνικά (without lang definition)
```
* It should work by just adding lang..I’ve tried this already..
* Thanks!
* Thread Starter [mijalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mijalis/)
* (@mijalis)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969715)
* Try this example, it should work…
I’ve tried this already:
* ```
Ελληνικά
Ελληνικά (without lang definition)
```
* Thread Starter [mijalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mijalis/)
* (@mijalis)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969719)
* I used a dirty hack in polylang to check my site and it is OK…
Check please:
[http://www.villakynthia.gr/en](http://www.villakynthia.gr/en)/
* File: include/walker-list.php
Line 20:
* ```
"\t".'%s'."\n",
```
* Thread Starter [mijalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mijalis/)
* (@mijalis)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969723)
* Just an unrelated Chrome bug…developer tools don’t render the change correctly…
Firefox does, so it is better debug this property using Firefox’s F12
* Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
* (@chouby)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969761)
* I saw the result and will fix this in a future release.
* For your information, a few months ago, I had the intention to do this for all
occurrences of native language names (not only for the frontend language switcher
but for all occurrences on admin side too). I stopped the development because
at that time, I could not do it everywhere (in the admin language filter) and
I like consistency. I proposed a patch to WP which will be included in WP 4.5(
see [#33513](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33513)), so I will restart
my development on the topic.
* [jemcbade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemcbade/)
* (@jemcbade)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969897)
* > I saw the result and will fix this in a future release.
* I see you are aware of this – that no language switcher is available as a menu
item as of version 1.8.
* I am using WP 4.4.1 and I have tested with several Themes inc. Twenty Twelve
latest available version.
* I appreciate this plugin so very much and your hard work. I hope you can address
this soon. It is really problematic for our sites.
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969904)
* [@jemcbade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemcbade/)
In Appearance > Menus,
go in the “screen options” then check “Language switcher”. If you have another
request, please open a new topic. Thanks.
* [jemcbade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemcbade/)
* (@jemcbade)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-switcher-lang-attribute-missing/#post-6969905)
* Oops! There it is!
* Thanks for the help!
* Much appreciated.
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