Title: Valid HTML5 Spec markup
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Valid HTML5 Spec markup

 *  [Gabriel Gil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabrielbs/)
 * (@gabrielbs)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valid-html5-spec-markup/)
 * Since in HTML5 is a better practice to specify the lang on the root. Could be
   a way to make this a setting to choose on settings page, or show it in the HTML5
   way by default?
 * i’m thinking even better would be to check the `add_theme_support()` for html5
   support as `commen_form()` does.
 * This is the waring shown by W3C validator on a html5 page with mQtranslate enabled.
 *     ```
       Line 56, Column 54: Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead.
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US" />
       ```
   
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## Tags

 * [html5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html5/)
 * [Standard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/standard/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

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 * Last reply from: [Gabriel Gil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabrielbs/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valid-html5-spec-markup/)
 * Status: not resolved