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Feature suggestion: automatically redirect user to last selected language

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Description

When using the alternate feature, it would be nice if the selected language was saved in local storage.

Use Cases

Build features on top of being able to tell which language a user selected.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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squidfunkcommented, Jun 20, 2021

Okay, so we could persist the hreflang value when switching languages:

https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/blob/a4a00af0177e4d50e0af47ae2edb2723b4c50c28/src/partials/header.html#L118

That could actually work. However, it would only be sensical when the language-based routing (aka “Stay on page when switching languages”) is implemented. Then, we could detect the last-selected language and route the user automatically to the respective page, given that the pages have the same file name (= URL) in both languages. Otherwise, it would fall back to the homepage.

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squidfunkcommented, Oct 7, 2021

This issue has currently zero interest in the community, which is why I’m not considering it for implementation. The desired behavior can be achieved via theme extension and some additional JavaScript.