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metallissimus
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Set language in <head>
I ran a SEO tool for my website and they suggested I declare the language of the site. I tried injecting the code via Custom -> <head> but it wasn't recognized, I guess I used some wrong syntax. Here's what I tried so far:
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I assume they are both wrong because you probably can't use <html> inside another html-tag and <lang> just isn't a tag.
But how would I do that correctly?
But how would I do that correctly?
Re: Set language in <head>
Unfortunately, there is no way to edit the <html> tag in X3 (except for clumsy workarounds). I really haven't considered any requests like this before, but might have to consider it for a future X3 release. Personally, I don't think this attribute has any effect on SEO, as Google should easily be able to figure out what language your website is. This is also emphasized in the below link:
https://www.woorank.com/en/edu/seo-guid ... eclaration
The exception could be if you have multi-lingual content, for example some pages in English and some in a different language.
https://www.woorank.com/en/edu/seo-guid ... eclaration
The exception could be if you have multi-lingual content, for example some pages in English and some in a different language.
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metallissimus
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Re: Set language in <head>
Alright. I already assumed it doesn't have much impact, so it's really not that important for me. I just thought if there's an easy way, why not implement it – won't do any harm either.
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metallissimus
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Re: Set language in <head>
I stumbled upon this again in a different context: hyphenation. I want to enable auto hyphenation and somehow the CSS didn't work. I found this as a possible explanation:
It's not a huge deal, but something like this is rather ugly on the eyes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... SS/hyphensHyphenation rules are language-specific. In HTML, the language is determined by the lang attribute, and browsers will hyphenate only if this attribute is present and the appropriate hyphenation dictionary is available.
It's not a huge deal, but something like this is rather ugly on the eyes:
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Re: Set language in <head>
Did you try to set lang="de" in Settings > Custom > Custom <head>? You can also set language directly on a parent element in the content, for example:
Not sure how well this works though, especially in other languages than English. According to the browser-compatibility chart, this CSS not supported in all languages across all browsers. It seems only Firefox supports German perhaps.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... patibility
Also, I can't quite see in your screenshot where it's supposed to automatically break a word with hyphen. Surely you can't break "Umständen" into "Um-ständen"? And "Businessporträts" could only break into "Business-porträts" if "Business" would fit on the previous line, but to me it doesn't look like it does. I can't honestly see where auto-hypehnation would work as it can only break certain words at certain points.
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<div lang="de">All your stuff here</div>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... patibility
Also, I can't quite see in your screenshot where it's supposed to automatically break a word with hyphen. Surely you can't break "Umständen" into "Um-ständen"? And "Businessporträts" could only break into "Business-porträts" if "Business" would fit on the previous line, but to me it doesn't look like it does. I can't honestly see where auto-hypehnation would work as it can only break certain words at certain points.
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metallissimus
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Re: Set language in <head>
I wasn't aware of that... looks like I will have to deal with the worst cases manually then...mjau-mjau wrote: It seems only Firefox supports German perhaps.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... patibility
Yes, you can. Actually you can break in into "Um-stän-den" according to German grammar.Surely you can't break "Umständen" into "Um-ständen"?
Re: Set language in <head>
With narrow text sections like in your case, perhaps it could be an idea to use "justify" text-align instead, so that each line (except the last) will attempt to fill the entire width.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properti ... t-justify/
I wasn't aware of the "hyphens" CSS feature. It's interesting, but it's definitely required to be locale-aware, because the OS/browser needs to know what words (in each specific language) are allowed to break at what point.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properti ... t-justify/
Did you try it in Firefox or Safari? The main problem is that German doesn't yet seem to be supported in Chrome.metallissimus wrote:I wasn't aware of that... looks like I will have to deal with the worst cases manually then...mjau-mjau wrote: It seems only Firefox supports German perhaps.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... patibility
I wasn't aware of the "hyphens" CSS feature. It's interesting, but it's definitely required to be locale-aware, because the OS/browser needs to know what words (in each specific language) are allowed to break at what point.
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metallissimus
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Re: Set language in <head>
That'a good idea! Of course there are still some ugly lines sometimes... I will have to think about the "lesser evil": occasial huge gaps at the end of lines, occasional huge gaps between words, or all the time I would have to put into manual hyphenation.mjau-mjau wrote: With narrow text sections like in your case, perhaps it could be an idea to use "justify" text-align instead, so that each line (except the last) will attempt to fill the entire width.
Unfortunately Chrome is used by most of my visitors – by far.mjau-mjau wrote: The main problem is that German doesn't yet seem to be supported in Chrome.