Wow! what a fast response, thanks. I will give your suggestion a try now. This is so exciting if I can get this to work! :-)
On Mar 10, 10:39 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project > quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.comhttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.comhttp://jgeerdes.wordpress.com > [email protected] > > Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this > communication are given in US dollars. > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > Wesleyan Church! > > And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, > athttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.com > ! > > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
