Linking across languages

Linking from a Danish Page to an English Page (or vice versa)

When linking from a Danish page to an English page (or the other way around), you can usually just insert the URL of the page in the other language, and it will work correctly.

Unfortunately, there are cases where links between languages are broken, causing the page to either display in the wrong language or not display at all.

The method below resolves the issue in most cases. If it still doesn't work, you should contact your local websupport.

How to create a link across languages

Linking from danish to english pages

Let’s say we are on the Danish page https://medarbejdere.au.dk/testgren/demosite/link-mellem-sprog and we want to link to the English page medarbejdere.au.dk/en/faculties/business-and-social-sciences.

To create the link, you need to find the domain and ID number of the page you want to link to.

  • The page in this example has the ID number 307745.
  • The domain in this example is medarbejdere.au.dk.

Now, write the domain and ID number into this format:

www.medarbejdere.au.dk/index.php?id=307745&L=1

&L=1 indicates that the link should go to a language other than the default language.

Linking from english to danish pages

Let’s say we are on the English page medarbejdere.au.dk/en/faculties/business-and-social-sciences and want to link to the Danish page https://medarbejdere.au.dk/testgren/demosite/link-mellem-sprog

To create the link, you need to find domain and ID number of the page you want to link to.

  • The page in this example has the ID number 1441379.
    The domain in this example is medarbejdere.au.dk.

Now, write the domain and ID number into this format:

www.medarbejdere.au.dk/index.php?id=1441379

Without &L=1, as we are linking from a page that is not the default language to one that is.