How you would do this will depend very much on the nature of your  
page, the number of fields you're wanting to translate, and a number  
of other factors. The simplest way, of course, would be to loop  
through the fields you want to translate, generating what's called a  
function closure for each one so that it will be able to find itself  
back when the translation returns.  For instance:

var fields=document.getElementsByTagName('input');
var srcLang=''; // leave blank to auto-detect
var desLang='en'; // change to whatever you want it to go to

var myClosure=function(field){ // here is the closure, a function that  
returns a function
  return function(response){
   if(!response.error){
    field.value=response.translation
   }
  }
}

for(var i=0;i<fields.length;i++){
   
google 
.language 
.translate(fields[i].value,srcLang,desLang,myClosure(fields[i]));
}

If there is a large number of small fields, though, it may be better  
performance-wise to combine them into groups that are separated out by  
xml or some other markup that your script will be able to parse out  
when the translation returns.  The key here will be that, when using  
the JSAPI, you will be using the GET method, and Google limits URL  
lengths - which is how parameters are passed with the GET method - to  
no more than 2,000 characters, including encoded characters and such.

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On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Reggie wrote:

>
> hi all, loving the language api. I am having a problem figuring out
> how I can dynamically translate all text fields on a web page when the
> page loads, can anyone help?
>
> >


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