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WindowEventHandlers.onlanguagechange

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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The onlanguagechange property of the WindowEventHandlers mixin is the event handler for processing languagechange events.

These events are received by the object implementing this interface, usually a Window, an HTMLBodyElement, or an HTMLIFrameElement. Such an event is sent by the browser to inform that the preferred languages list has been updated. The list is accessible via Navigator.languages.

Syntax

object.onlanguagechange = function;

Value

  • function is the name of a user-defined function, without the () suffix or any parameters, or an anonymous function declaration, such as function(event) {...}. An event handler always has one single parameter, containing the event, here of type Event.

Example

window.onlanguagechange = function(event) {
  console.log('languagechange event detected!');
};

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
onlanguagechange
37
79
32
No
24
10.1
37
37
4
24
10.3
4.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEventHandlers/onlanguagechange