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user2274193
user2274193

Reputation: 31

How to develop the site to switch between multiple languages?

I have developed the website in html5. In this I have an language selection option, now it is in English. If I select any other language, then it should show the contents in that language. I don't want to use the Google translator to translate the content. I have the content in all languages. If any tags or methods in html5 or HTML to get and display the contents specific to that language?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 14706

Answers (4)

19h
19h

Reputation: 829

You can use Javascript localization (this is one of your tags, so I guess you'd use it).

What you can do is a quick-check for the locale of the user, thus filling the page with a matching localization of your contents.

Here's a quick and dirty example. (note: this is purely dynamic)

locale = (navigator["language"] || "en").split("-")[0];

localization = {
    "de": "Hallo Benutzer!",
    "en": "Hey user!"
};

text = localization[locale] || localization["en"];

e = document.createElement("span");
e.innerHTML = text;
document.body.appendChild(e);

Upvotes: 3

John D
John D

Reputation: 2365

You will need to get your pages translated into whatever languages you want.

Duplicate your entire web structure per language so you end up with

www.example.com/en/.. www.example.com/fr/..

etc

Generally people give use a flag to indicate the language and redirect to the corresponding language page.

Upvotes: 2

Ion Sapoval
Ion Sapoval

Reputation: 635

If your website is a static one, then you can clone your site for each language, by using language specific content, and access each version with a different base url ( domain/en/..., domain/es/....).

Upvotes: 2

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943100

No.

HTML allows you to specify the language you are working in with lang attributes, but it provides no specific features for (manually or automatically) translation.

Upvotes: 1

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