Joomla! Documentation™

Description

This module allows you to switch between available Content languages. Selecting a language will take you to the home page for that language.

How to Access

This Page is a Candidate for Deletion

This notice should remain for a minimum of 1 week after it was placed on the page. If discussion is still ongoing, it should remain until a consensus is reached, after which the page will either be deleted or this notice removed. If you disagree with its deletion, please discuss your reasons on its associated talk page, as applicable.

Remember to check if anything links here and the page history before deleting.

Last edit by Lorangerart (talk · contrib) · Last edited on Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:39:01 +0000

To add a new Language Switcher module or edit an existing Language Switcher module, navigate to the Module Manager:

• Select Extensions → Modules

Click the New button and click on Language Switcher in the modal popup window.

To Edit an existing Language Switcher module, in the Module Manager click on the Language Switcher Modules Title or click the Language Switcher module's check box and then click the Edit button in the Toolbar.

Screenshot

Details

• Title. The title of the module. This is also the title displayed in the Frontend for the module.

Module

• Pre-text. This is the text or HTML that is displayed above the language switcher.
• Post-text. This is the text or HTML that is displayed below the language switcher.
• Use Dropdown. (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes', the display parameters below will be ignored. The content languages native names will display in a dropdown.
  • Use Flags For Dropdown. (Yes/No). Add image flags to the dropdown.
  • Line Height. (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes', will decrease the line height when using flags.
• Use Image Flags. (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes', will display language choice as image flags. Otherwise will use the content language native names.
• Active Language: (Yes/No). Display or not the active language. If displayed, the class 'lang-active' will be added to the element.
• Horizontal Display: (Yes/No). Default is set to 'Yes', i.e. to horizontal display.

Note: If 'Use Dropdown' and 'Use Image Flags' have been set to 'No', the switcher will display language names.

Common Details

This Page is a Candidate for Deletion

This notice should remain for a minimum of 1 week after it was placed on the page. If discussion is still ongoing, it should remain until a consensus is reached, after which the page will either be deleted or this notice removed. If you disagree with its deletion, please discuss your reasons on its associated talk page, as applicable.

Remember to check if anything links here and the page history before deleting.

Last edit by Lorangerart (talk · contrib) · Last edited on Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:39:01 +0000

Common Tabs

This Page is a Candidate for Deletion

This notice should remain for a minimum of 1 week after it was placed on the page. If discussion is still ongoing, it should remain until a consensus is reached, after which the page will either be deleted or this notice removed. If you disagree with its deletion, please discuss your reasons on its associated talk page, as applicable.

Remember to check if anything links here and the page history before deleting.

Last edit by Lorangerart (talk · contrib) · Last edited on Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:39:01 +0000

Toolbar

This Page is a Candidate for Deletion

This notice should remain for a minimum of 1 week after it was placed on the page. If discussion is still ongoing, it should remain until a consensus is reached, after which the page will either be deleted or this notice removed. If you disagree with its deletion, please discuss your reasons on its associated talk page, as applicable.

Remember to check if anything links here and the page history before deleting.

Last edit by Lorangerart (talk · contrib) · Last edited on Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:39:01 +0000

No links here.

Related Information

• More about Modules: what is a module position, Description of the default Site and Administrator Modules.