Javascript Change Text

[redgunner]

Hey I have a website where a user can click English or Spanish but I was thinking I could use javascript so that when they click the English Flag, the text changes to English or the Spanish Flag to Spanish...

 

How could I do this?

[Dethman]

Well there are a number of ways you could do it, but trust me it might be lengthy. First you could assign all paragraphs and words of the site to an array and when the button is clicked switch the innerHTML to the word(s) or paragraph(s) wanted.

 

Hope this helps,

Brian.

[redgunner]

Do you think CSS would work much easier in my favour over this? Im not sure, maybe some sort of div tags? that visible/hide, im just trying to get my head around the algorithm... thanks!

[KevinM1]

Do you think CSS would work much easier in my favour over this? Im not sure, maybe some sort of div tags? that visible/hide, im just trying to get my head around the algorithm... thanks!

 

It would work, but that's a lot of extraneous markup to have on each page, especially if you have multiple languages in play (you'd probably want English, French, and Spanish as a bare minimum).

 

For the user, the smoothest option would probably be to use AJAX.  Have the various 'language packs' (for lack of a better term) reside on the server.  When a button is clicked on the page, the client would then retrieve the correct language data from the server based on that button's value, and fill the appropriate elements with that language data.  Even better, the process would be instantaneous for the user.