{"id":754,"date":"2022-10-06T11:26:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/10\/06\/6618609-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-a-language-attribute-to-a-website\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:54:27","slug":"6618609-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-a-language-attribute-to-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6618609-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-a-language-attribute-to-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Add a Language Attribute to a Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">The HTML lang attribute specifies the language of your website. This attribute is important SEO-wise as it makes a website more accessible:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Search engines use the language attribute to return language-specific search results<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Screen reading tools use this attribute to recognize the language and provide the correct accent and pronunciation while reading website texts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">When using <b>Hostinger Website Builder<\/b>, you can add a language attribute by selecting the preferred language in the <b><a href=\"\/support\/6466320-website-builder-seo-settings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">SEO settings<\/a><\/b> &#128269; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Within the builder, click on the <b>ellipsis &#8943; button<\/b> on the left to access the website settings, and then select <b>SEO<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/11\/4a9b23f5-6430-4825-97c8-088807649df1.jpg\" alt=\"The SEO settings in Hostinger Website Builder\" width=\"300\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Within the <b>Overview<\/b> section, find the subsection Website information, and click on Edit next to it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/10\/348d4a7b-7ce4-4b68-96b0-7ebcf899e2ea.jpg\" alt=\"The SEO settings in Hostinger Website Builder\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Select the preferred language from the dropdown and save the changes:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/10\/451ca4f0-a07b-4e77-9927-2764b8b71c92.jpg\" alt=\"Setting the preferred website language\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Finally, <b><a href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-how-to-update-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">update your site<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to add the HTML lang attribute using Hostinger Website Builder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6618609-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-a-language-attribute-to-a-website\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6618609-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-agregar-un-atributo-de-idioma-a-un-sitio-web\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6618609-hostinger-createur-de-sites-web-comment-ajouter-un-attribut-de-langue-a-un-site-web\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6618609-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-kaip-nurodyti-svetaines-kalbos-atributa\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6618609-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-adicionar-um-atributo-de-idioma-no-seu-site\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}