ie7 lang attribute compatibility

Question

I am setting the lang attribute on my html tag and body tag. I then explicitly use it in my css for targeting css at particular languages.

This works fine in IE8, IE9, FF & Chrome and works a treat. However it does not work in IE7. Anyone know why and a possible work around for it?

Answer 1

The attribute selector such as

[lang|="en"]

has buggy support in IE8 and lower. You will have to target the element by other means!