I am using datatables from datatables.net within a multi-language application. I know how to switch the language of the table with simply passing the language file or customizing the strings by myself.
"language": { "url": "//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/9dcbecd42ad/i18n/lang.json" } But is there a possibility to change the language according to the users browser settings?
Unfortunetaly, the langauge packages are named by language names, not by language codes :
//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.10.7/i18n/Finnish.json
//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.10.7/i18n/French.json
etc. So you must built a map that translates language codes to language names :
var langMap = { 'en' : 'English', 'da' : 'Danish', 'se' : 'Swedish' //etc, the languages you want to support } Now you can pass the correct language package URL to dataTables that corresponds to the current browser language :
function getLanguage() { var lang = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage; return '//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.10.7/i18n/'+langMap[lang]+'.json' } var table = $('#example').DataTable({ language : { url: getLanguage() } }); demo -> http://jsfiddle.net/3er6f4w6/
