jQuery Selector :lang()

Introduction

Select all <p> elements with a lang attribute value that starts with "it": 

$("p:lang(it)")

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("p:lang(it)").css("background-color", "yellow");
});/*from  www . j a v a 2  s  . c  o  m*/
</script>
</head>
<body>

<p>this is a test.</p>
<p lang="it">this is a test from it</p>

</body>
</html>

The :lang() selector selects elements whose the language attribute starts with a specified value.

The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like lang="en", or followed by a hyphen( - ), like lang="en-us". 

$(":lang(language)")



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