Gets the UI language of the browser. This is different from i18n.getAcceptLanguages
which returns the preferred user languages.
See the Internationalization page for a guide on using this function.
Gets the UI language of the browser. This is different from i18n.getAcceptLanguages
which returns the preferred user languages.
See the Internationalization page for a guide on using this function.
browser.i18n.getUILanguage()
None.
string
. The browser UI language code as an i18n.LanguageCode
.
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getUILanguage |
35
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14
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47
Firefox 55 and earlier returns a language tag that's separated with the underscore character instead of hyphen, see
bug 1374552.
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Yes
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14
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48
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15
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let uiLanguage = browser.i18n.getUILanguage(); console.log(uiLanguage); //e.g. "fr"
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.i18n
API. This documentation is derived from i18n.json
in the Chromium code.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/i18n/getUILanguage