diff --git a/common/tpl/common_layout.html b/common/tpl/common_layout.html
index 85ebd2eb0..e82729648 100644
--- a/common/tpl/common_layout.html
+++ b/common/tpl/common_layout.html
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 }
 <!--@if($db_info->use_html5=='Y')-->
 <!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="{$lang_type}">
 <!--@else-->
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<!--@end-->
 <html lang="{$lang_type}" xml:lang="{$lang_type}" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<!--@end-->
 <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
     <meta name="Generator" content="XpressEngine" />
