This article is for Developers using the Global Delivery Network.
The Smartling Global Delivery Network (GDN) supports a list of pre-defined classes and tags that you can add to your source code which instruct Smartling to handle the translation or rendering of your translated site in a particular way.
Integrating at your source code level is the most stable and scalable way to customize the behavior of the GDN to suit the needs of your organization. This approach allows you complete visibility and control of your integration points so your team can develop your site code with localization in mind.
The out of the box tags that can be applied to your source code are documented in the table below:
Name | Function | Markup |
Hide source element from all translated sites | sl_hide | |
Capture Javascript content for translation | <sl:translate> | |
Capture JSON content for translation | sl_translate, sl_all, sl_none, sl_notranslate | |
Prevent link rewriting | sl_norewrite | |
Prevent capture and translation | notranslate | |
Prevent link rewriting AND translation | sl_opaque | |
Identify strings with plural forms | sl_plural | |
Integrate embedded search | sl-search-input, sl-search-keyword | |
Sort dropdown values alphabetically after translation | sl_sort | |
Change content segmentation | sl_split | |
Display different content than source site, by region | sl_swap | |
Translate HTML element not captured by default | translate | |
Create variant for identical string | data-sl-variant, data-sl-attr-variant, sl_variant | |
Obscure sensitive data | sl_whiteout |
If you are unable to alter certain areas of your source code, there are other methods that can be used to control GDN behavior. Read more about these strategies here.