Template:Lang

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This template is used in system messages.

Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikimedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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This template is for example called from autotranslatable templates and is used to apply the "lang" and "dir" attributes to the span tag containing the text. It also adds CSS classes, that for example allow CSS highlighting text that is in a specific language.

Usage

{{Lang |1= |2= }}

This template tags the wrapped text with the "description" CSS class, which will cause Media Viewer to display that text. In a file context, the template should therefore only be used to wrap text that is useful as a file description. Do not use this as a general-purpose language tagging template; most of the time it is sufficient to directly add the necessary HTML attributes instead (example), with wikitext like <div lang="{{#bcp47:LANG}}" dir="{{#dir:LANG}}">TEXT</div>.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
1	language code	Language code. For a list of language codes to use for parameter 1 see w:List of ISO 639-1 codes.	empty	required
2	text		empty	required

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

See also

• {{multilingual link}}
• {{LangS}} — variant to use in running text ("inline")

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.