Getting current site language

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I want to get the current site language as I am implementing a custom module that will depend on web language. I am new to SharePoint and the company is using multi language site or site collection.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '16 at 15:33

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There are many ways to retrieve site's language. Using javascript:

//Current Language
console.log(_spPageContextInfo.currentCultureName);
console.log(_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage);
console.log(_spPageContextInfo.webLanguage);
console.log(SP.Res.lcid);

var currentLocale = "<%= SPContext.Current.Web.Language %>";
var globalLocale = "<%= SPContext.Current.Web.Language %>";
document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].getAttribute('lang');

answered May 13 '16 at 15:33

Aveenav

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Can you explain to me what is the SP.Res – Marc May 13 '16 at 15:47
It's equivalent to .resx file but in client side. Open you fav console editor (Firebug, IE tools, chrome ) and type SP.Res. you'll see all the available properties and values – Aveenav May 13 '16 at 15:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:41

You can try below code:

SPContext.Current.RegionalSettings.LocaleId - Gets the regional settings object of the current HTTP context in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Also you could load language from current web

SPContext.Current.Web.Language - Gets the locale identifier (LCID) for the default language of the website.

Reference: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e12a6797-e6b2-44c8-840c-1c09623b7a84/how-to-get-the-language-of-current-sharepoint-portal?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

SPWeb.Language property

To Use Java Script:

You have two easy ways to get the LCID in SP JavaScript

var lcid =_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage;
var lcid = SP.Res.lcid;

Get the current UI language with ECMAScript

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '16 at 15:34

You can use JavaScript, there's an object available for you called: _spPageContextInfo, and then you can access currentLanguage, like:

_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage

It will give you the language ID, in English it's 1033. You have to know ID for each language you want and that's it.

Getting current site language

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