Localizing text inside <div> or any regular inner text

Question

User662461862 posted

Hello,

How do I tel VS to generate resources for any inner text, e.g.:

<div> Hello ! </div>

do I have to put all text inside LABEL tags ?

Answer 1

User1622957740 posted

You can't localize purely static text - at least not from the server side (you can do it from the client side with JavaScript but it's ugly).

So yes you'll want to use labels or any other controls type around all static text.

Alternately you can also do something like this:

<div> <%= this.GetLocalResourceObject("HelloLabel") %></div>

although there are a few caveats to that scenario:

http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/114530.aspx

Hope this helps.

+++ Rick ---

Answer 2

User764555827 posted

 Hi Mourad,

It may not be so clean (some overhead at run time), but you can replace your <div> with a <div runat="server">, which is quite easy to to project-wide with a "search and replace"... 

Hope this helps,

Arnaud