How to develop the site to switch between multiple languages?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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);

Answer 2

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/....).