Where do I put language button on my website?

Most web users are generally used to having language buttons either in the top or bottom right corner of the page. Putting your language switcher in any of these locations can offer your users a more intuitive and seamless experience.

How do I make a multilingual website in HTML?

Approach

  1. keep track of a list of phrases and translations for each of the three languages.
  2. provide the correct list of phrases to polyglot based on user input.
  3. use an html data attribute to store the phrase name in the html.
  4. hard-code the default translation in the html.

How can I view foreign websites in English?

Navigate to the webpage and wait for the Chrome extension to trigger a translate option. It will appear in the top right corner of the website. Check the box to translate all future websites to English automatically, if desired.

How do you translate a page in HTML?

The translate attribute specifies whether the content of an element should be translated or not. Test: Use the Google translate box (at the top of the page) to change to another language, and look what happens to the word “ice cream” below: Here we use translate=”no”: ice cream.

What is multilingual website?

A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin American soccer available in both Spanish and Portuguese.

How do I add a translate button to my WordPress site?

Open up the WordPress dashboard and go to Settings > Google Translator. Ensure that the box next to ‘Plugin Status’ is checked. Simply select your website’s default language and all of the languages you want to translate your site into. Don’t forget to save your settings.

How do websites handle multiple languages?

Managing multilingual versions of your site

  1. Use different URLs for different language versions.
  2. Tell Google about your different language versions.
  3. Make sure the page language is obvious.
  4. Let the user switch the page language.
  5. Use language-specific URLs.
  6. Using locale-specific URLs.
  7. How does Google determine a target locale?

How do you serve a page with multiple languages?

To change the language, just simply set the lang attribute. We can define it anywhere in the document, such as in the body, in the paragraph, in the heading, or in the span tag. But the best practice is to set the lang in the span tag.