diff --git a/src/js/app/index.js b/src/js/app/index.js
index 69e1fdce..21617d54 100644
--- a/src/js/app/index.js
+++ b/src/js/app/index.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ var React = require('react');
 var assign = require('object-assign');
 var util = require('../util');
 var intl = require('../intl');
+var _ = require('underscore');
 var LocaleStore = require('../stores/LocaleStore');
 var LocaleActions = require('../actions/LocaleActions');
 
@@ -88,6 +89,9 @@ var vcsModeRefresh = function(eventData) {
 
 var intlRefresh = function() {
   if (!window.$) { return; }
+  var countryCode = LocaleStore.getLocale().replace(/_(.*)$/i, "");
+  $("html").attr('lang', countryCode);
+  $("meta[http-equiv='content-language']").attr("content", countryCode);
   $('span.intl-aware').each(function(i, el) {
     var intl = require('../intl');
     var key = $(el).attr('data-intl');
@@ -328,4 +332,3 @@ exports.getLevelDropdown = function() {
 };
 
 exports.init = init;
-
diff --git a/src/template.index.html b/src/template.index.html
index e788eb41..5fbc5fd6 100644
--- a/src/template.index.html
+++ b/src/template.index.html
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   <meta property="og:url" content="https://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/index.html?demo"/>
   <meta property="og:image" content="https://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/assets/learnGitBranching.png"/>
   <meta property="og:description" content="An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!"/>
+  <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">
 
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="build/{{styleFile}}" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="src/style/font-awesome.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
@@ -458,7 +459,7 @@
           <span class="showWhenNotPicked">
             Pick
           </span>
-        </a>  
+        </a>
       </div>
     </li>
   </script>