HTML  /  <script> HTML Tag / <script language="">
Deprecated in HTML5. Do not use.

<script language=””>

In HTML Attributes

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Attribute of
<script> HTML Tag

The language attribute of <script> was intended as a way to define the scripting language in use. This was never implemented correctly, as developers did not have a standard list of acceptable values for language. In HTML 5, you should specify this information using the type attribute instead.

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