<code> element description

[AMWJ]

Is there an attribute in the <code> element should I use to describe what my code does. It would be very convenient for search engines to search code examples.
Also, why is there no attribute for the language the code is in? This would make searching for examples so much easier ( "HTMLDocument example:"Parse HTML" code:C#").

[zcorpan]

You could use title="" or put the description in surrounding prose. As for the language,

"Although there is no formal way to indicate the language of computer code being marked up, authors who wish to mark code elements with the language used, e.g. so that syntax highlighting scripts can use the right rules, may do so by adding a class prefixed with "language-" to the element."
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... de-element