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Can you swap between languages in an email?
Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to have in an email an button to change the language of the email.
so in theory in the html both languages are programmed but one is hidden and then with the click on the button the language changes.
absolutely. you can use the hidden checkbox solution to create a progressive disclosure pattern as an accordion or toggle. however, it won’t change the lang attribute on the html element. so the email client will only see 1 document language, but the user could see both sections of content.
Hi Charles,
I like this idea do you know how what the fallback would look like for outlook. Like Sabrina i am also curious if you can do this.
Indeed, will it work in Outlook :) most of my customers are viewing from outlook 2007 :(...
That Outlook share is unfortunate (and extremely uncommon). Across the industry – as reported right here on Litmus – all 9 versions of Outlook combined (03, 07, 10, 13, 13hdpi, 16, 16hdpi on Windows, and 11, 16 on Mac) currently only account for a 6% market share. This means any single version in that list is ~.6% share of the email landscape – a pretty small minority.
As you know, the Windows versions of Outlook do not support the hidden checkbox method. However, each specific version can be targeted with conditional comments and CSS selectors. So you could create an alternate experience for Outlook 2007.
For this particular challenge, I can only imagine 3 solutions:
I have seen #2 in my own inbox. A conference for motion design held in Montreal sends English and French in the same email. It doesn’t seem very elegant, but it works.
I hope this helps.