How can I add "translate into" country flags to my pages?

Sounds to me like a delightful coding challenge for me to sink my teeth into. Lightweight, simple, but darn interesting.

As you'll recall from reading the earlier article on language translation scripting, the code is basically a select with an onSelect Javascript event handler. If we want to make this same action occur on the click of a graphic instead, we'll need to use the onClick event and let's try putting that direction into an img tag.

I'l save you the fiddling and just jump to the code:

A bit of digging around and it turns out that there's a nice little French flag icon on Wikipedia with the url http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/FranceFlag-ico.png. If we use this then the code looks like this:

and, live, works like this:

That gives you the gist of what you seek. The trick now is to figure out how to find a bunch of nice icons you can use. For that, I suggest you check out Google Image Search. To change the language of one of these links, replace "fr" with the two-letter language code you can glean from the earlier article's HTML code.

Me? I think I'll keep pushing on this idea and offer up some common language translation options here on AskDaveTaylor. Stay tuned for that...