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Description

This rule determines if a given href on <a> element is pointing to an external URL and marks for manual verification when the destination URL pointing to a different location than the current page.

Examples of correct code for this rule:

<p>Find the documentation <a href="product-swedish.html" hreflang="sv">about product</a>.</p>

How to fix it

Links that pointing to a location in a different language than origin should have an attribute hreflang and specify the language code.

Additionally you can use CSS to display link destination language.

a[hreflang]:after { content: " [" attr(hreflang) "]"; }

Note: don’t use flags to indicate languages! Flags represent countries, not languages.

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