Never mind, I figured it out. Once again, thanks very much for your
help, it is much appreciated!

On Mar 10, 11:15 am, Reggie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last quick question, how would I be able pick up the required language
> pair dynamically/ Do I have to generate the javascript dynamically
> after a postback?
>
> 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
>
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> > [email protected]
>
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>
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> > 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?
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