language pseudo-class selector is not working [#1420198]

trying to select html language attribute for language-specific styling using the css :lang() pseudo-class selector but it is not working:

html:
<html class="js" xml:lang="zh-hans" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

css:

html{font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
html:lang(zh-hans){font-family: SimSum-18030, SimHei, serif;}

I have not succeeded in my attempts at language-specific styling so it is likely that I am making a mistake.

I noticed a patch to add css class to body tag but don't see the point unless the above method of selection is not valid.

Thank you

Comments

Comment #1

parkerjdru commented 6 February 2012 at 03:30

still struggling with this. Here is the bilingual site: http://openarch.com/ . Would like to style the chinese and english independently, but above css selection method is not doing anything.

would really appreciate any help or kind advice on where i should post this question if not here. I have already moved from this from the general forum after receiving no responses. I am pretty sure this is a stupid question, but it is taking me weeks to solve.

desperate thanks in adv.