Where do I set the language of a page?

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02 May 2016, 10:18 AM
JorisVdB

Where do I set the language of a page?

Hello,
I have a multilingual site.
For SEO reasons it seems to be important to determine the language of the text on every page.
However I did not find a language setting on the page properties window and all pages are referring to English :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

So how do I set the language of the page?

Kind regards,
Joris
02 May 2016, 11:19 AM
Acorn

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JorisVdB

Hello,
I have a multilingual site.
For SEO reasons it seems to be important to determine the language of the text on every page.
However I did not find a language setting on the page properties window and all pages are referring to English :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

So how do I set the language of the page?

Kind regards,
Joris

Joris, you would add

Quote:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr" />

or similar to each page's Web Properties > Page > HTML code (head).

I don't know how to add this for specific HTML tags in any HTML5 element (e.g., <span lang="fr">...</span>) in Xara.
Perhaps Xara could extend the Names functionality to include HtmlAttribute_<attribute>=<value> or HtmlAttribute_<attributeset>={<value>; <value>; <value>; ...} sometime soon?

Acorn
02 May 2016, 01:51 PM
Egg Bramhill

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

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or similar to each page's Web Properties > Page > HTML code (head).

Slightly quicker is Web Properties > Website > HTML code (head).
02 May 2016, 01:56 PM
Acorn

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Slightly quicker is Web Properties > Website > HTML code (head).

Sorry Egg, OP stated " a multilingual site."
Acorn
02 May 2016, 02:04 PM
Egg Bramhill

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

Ah! I was thinking he was creating several websites in several languages, not one page in several languages ;)
02 May 2016, 02:07 PM
Acorn

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Ah! I was thinking he was creating several websites in several languages, not one page in several languages ;)

Regardless of what might be wanted, the approach of added Meta to the page / site is what's needed,
Acorn
02 May 2016, 03:52 PM
JorisVdB

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acorn

Joris, you would add or similar to each page's Web Properties > Page > HTML code (head).

I don't know how to add this for specific HTML tags in any HTML5 element (e.g., <span lang="fr">...</span>) in Xara.
Perhaps Xara could extend the Names functionality to include HtmlAttribute_<attribute>=<value> or HtmlAttribute_<attributeset>={<value>; <value>; <value>; ...} sometime soon?

Acorn

Thanks Acorn. I have implemented your suggestion:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr" />
and yes, Xara should integrate the possibility to set the language to every page. I don't understand why even after 11 versions they still did not. It is a basic setting that always must be set.
@egg: Yes it is a multilingual site with different languages in one website. So general settings won't do.
Thank you all for your advise.
Joris
02 May 2016, 06:58 PM
Acorn

Re: Where do I set the language of a page?

Joris, good luck with your site,
Acorn