BootStrap 4 multilingual site menu

Frameworks Bootstrap
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BootStrap 4 multilingual site menu is a simple example of how to do a multilingual selector menu in BootStrap 4 .

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because of the way BootStrap works, it requires JavaScript on and JQuery loaded
useful for i18n (internationalization) and i10n (localization)

navbar.htmk

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
        <meta name="description" content="">
        <meta name="author" content="">
        <title>Multilingual Menu in Navbar Template for Bootstrap</title>
        <!-- Bootstrap core CSS -->
        <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> 
        <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flag-icon-css/3.1.0/css/flag-icon.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
        <!-- Custom styles for this template -->
        <link href="navbar.css" rel="stylesheet">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="container">
            <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light rounded">
                <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
                <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarsExample09" aria-controls="navbarsExample09" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
                    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
                </button>
                <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarsExample09">
                    <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
                        <li class="nav-item active">
                            <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
                        </li>
                        <li class="nav-item">
                            <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
                        </li>
                        <li class="nav-item">
                            <a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
                        </li>
                        <li class="nav-item dropdown">
                            <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="http://example.com" id="dropdown09" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"><span class="flag-icon flag-icon-us"> </span> English</a>
                            <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdown09">
                                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#fr"><span class="flag-icon flag-icon-fr"> </span>  French</a>
                                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#it"><span class="flag-icon flag-icon-it"> </span>  Italian</a>
                                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#ru"><span class="flag-icon flag-icon-ru"> </span>  Russian</a>
                            </div>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                    <form class="form-inline my-2 my-md-0">
                        <input class="form-control" type="text" placeholder="Search" aria-label="Search">
                    </form>
                </div>
            </nav>
        </div>
        <!-- Bootstrap core JavaScript
    ================================================== -->
        <!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
        <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.slim.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
        <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

navbar.css is actually rather superfluous

body {
    /*padding-top: 20px;*/
    padding-bottom: 20px;
}

.navbar {
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
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Rather neat! thanks for sharing :slight_smile:

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A new tutorial with a much better expanded tutorial is available on the website : https://pinegrow.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-language-dropdown-with-flags-in-bootstrap-4/

The new forum thread : Tutorial - Creating a language dropdown with Bootstrap 4

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