Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use Google's code to translate text ONLY if it is NOT English. The code below works if you enter Spanish or another foreign language, but it just repeats English if English is entered (obviously we don't need English translated). Any ideas? Thx.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Google Ajax Language API</title>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("language", "1");
function initialize() {
var text = document.getElementById("text").innerHTML;
google.language.detect(text, function(result) {
if (!result.error && result.language) {
google.language.translate(text, result.language, "en",
function(result) {
var translated = document.getElementById("translation");
if (result.translation) {
translated.innerHTML = result.translation;
}
});
}
});
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);
</script>
<body>
<div style="width:420px; margin:auto; padding:5px;">Original Text:</div>
<div id="text" style="width:420px; margin:auto; padding:5px;">I like cold beer</div>
<br />
<div style="width:420px; margin:auto; padding:5px;">Translated Text:</div>
<div id="translation" style="width:420px;margin:auto;padding:3px;"></div>
</body>
</html>