How to replace the folder of my url with javascript?

Question

I have read a lot of answers here about changing the site language with jQuery but nothing worked for me.

Well, I have a website as an example: www.domain.com Inside I have folders for the languages. /en/ English pages, /el/ Greek pages. All pages are the same, both for English and Greek. index.html, gallery.html etc

I have two flag icons in the top right header page to change the language. I want, when the user clicks the British flag, to go to /en/page.html and when the user clicks the Greek flag to go to /el/page.html.

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
   $('a').click(function() {
            document.location.href =document.location.href.replace('/el/' '/en/');
      });
    });
</script>

And here is my html code:

<head>
<a href="javascript:;"><img src="../images/flagen.gif"></a>
</head>

In this example I am on Greek page rootwww/el/index.html and I want to replace /el/ with /en/ folder path and go to /en/index.html

What I am doing wrong?

Ketola · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-11 13:16:55Z

1

There's a comma missing from your replace method. Change it to:

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
   $('a').click(function() {
            document.location.href = document.location.href.replace('/el/','/en/');
      });
    });
</script>

This should work.

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 13:16

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George Aggelis Over a year ago

Thanks a lot, I didn't know that comma was important for replace method.

Ketola Over a year ago

Indeed it is. The syntax is string.replace(searchval,replaceval). You can also use regular expressions for searching. See w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp for examples.

BuddhiP Over a year ago

BTW, It's not that comma is 'important for the replace method', a comma is important to separate the parameters in a method call, and replace method takes two parameters, what is to be replaced and the new value. So those two should be separated by a comma, as those two are parameters to the replace method.

Mehdi Bugnard · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-11 13:22:38Z

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Did you forget the comma in the "replace" or is this normal for you? And you do not need to write twice "document.location.href ...."

I suggest the following code to test

$(document).ready(function(){
   $('a').click(function() {
            var str = document.getElementById('a').document.location.href;
            var newPath= str.replace("/el/","/en/");
            document.location.href =newPath;
      });
    });

edited Dec 11, 2012 at 13:22

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 13:16

Mehdi Bugnard

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