Thanks Josh, that worked perfectly! =) All the best, -Tim
On Aug 3, 10:56 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Hi Tim, > > If you put the translate Element code on a page, like you already > tried, and you link to that page with "#googtrans/en/ja" on the end of > the URL, it will open an immediately translate. > For example,http://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage.html#googtrans/en/ja > Would open the urlhttp://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage.htmland > immediately translate it from English to Japanese. > > Hope that helps, > Josh > > On Jul 31, 1:02 pm, TimG wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > I added the code for the language select box from this page to my > > website: > > >http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&sl=... > > > It works beautifully! When I select a language I get this nice blue > > loading bar at the top of the page that I can close/X out of. Plus > > the URL in my browser does not change, which is great. > > > When I try adding a plain hyperlink to translate the current page, > > like this... > > > <a > > href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.example.com&langpa...es";>Español</a> > > > ...to translate from English to Spanish, I get different behavior. > > The page refreshes, my URL is changed, I have a larger, more clunky, > > white top bar that I can't escape from without hitting the back button > > a number of times. > > > My question is can I get the same behavior for the hyperlinks as I get > > from the select box? > > > I am building a site that targets English, Chinese, & Spanish speakers > > but would ALSO like to have the select box so that more languages are > > available. Breaking out the Spanish and Chinese links helps bring > > attention to my target audience while making the site appear more > > "multi-lingual" instead of having the languages hidden in a select > > box. > > > Thanks for reading! > > -Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" 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-translate-general?hl=en.
