have to give lang attribute for a bilingual portal

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I m working on validation of my portal which is two languages English and french. I want to specify lang attribute in the tag. (i.e .....localhost:40630/?lang=fr) IS there any way to fetch the lang value form URL and place it into HTML lang attribute.

My application is in MVC4 razor engine.
i want some thing like this dynamically when corresponding language choosen its source code would display..........
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en">
or
<html lang="es" xml:lang="es">

Posted 6-Nov-14 7:21am

ssharma21

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Nov-14 13:24pm

Yes, you can do it, but how can it help making a portal bilingual? Whatever you do, you need to have a translation from one language to another.
—SA

ssharma21 6-Nov-14 14:06pm

its all developed...nd working ...but for its validation, i need to specify the lang attribute to html tag....can u please tell me how can I do that for two languages?

Nelek 6-Nov-14 15:02pm

if you want french... why are you putting spanish as the second option?

ssharma21 6-Nov-14 15:18pm

that was jst an example.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Nov-14 15:47pm

Please reply not to your own post, but to the comments by the people who you want to address. Can you see the "Reply" buttons. As you comment to your own post, we don't get notifications on your comment.
Besides, you did not answer my question. So, what's the point in specifying that attribute?
—SA

ssharma21 7-Nov-14 10:10am

I want to make my portal accessible and fr that its required to specify the lang attribute in <html>. Sorry for the trouble

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Nov-14 10:27am

No trouble at all. You still didn't access who the attribute can help it.
—SA

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Manas Bhardwaj · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-06T10:03:00

Solution 1

Something like this:

XML

<html>
    <head>
        <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"/>

        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                var language = "en" //Read from query string...
                $("html").attr("lang", language);
            });
        </script>

    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>

See here on how to read query string in JavaScript:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values-in-javascript[^]

Posted 6-Nov-14 10:03am

Manas Bhardwaj

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Maciej Los 6-Nov-14 16:33pm

+5

Manas Bhardwaj 6-Nov-14 16:38pm

thx!

ssharma21 7-Nov-14 11:45am

thanks for the code manas...m trying to fix it. but is it also possible to specify lang attribute widout fetching it from url... my portal is in two languages...english and french.. nd i want something lyk dis... <html lang="en" xml:lang="en"> or <html lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"> whichever language is using at dat tym.