How to get the value of an attribute with jQuery
<p>suppose I have an html document that looks like :</p>

<pre><code>&lt;html lang="en"&gt;
...
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>my question is : how to get the value of the attribute lang with jQuery?
I've tried $("html").attr("lang") but it did not work ...
any suggestions ?</p>

<p>thanks a lot !</p>
