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What does language attribute do in <script> tag in Javascript?

The language attribute is used to mention the scripting language. Typically, its value will be javascript. Although recent versions of HTML (and XHTML, its successor) have phased out the use of this attribute. Yes, it is now deprecated.

Here you can see how it was used.

Live Demo

<html>
   <body>
      <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
         <!--
            document.write("Hello World!")
         //-->
      </script>
   </body>
</html>