Generate urls in the language select dropdown

[jun3on]

Hi all,

I have a question and reviewing the forum posts I could not find a solution.

My version of joomla is 3.9.1 and when we use the language selector in its "dropdown selector" mode I have noticed that different languages ​​do not generate an url but rather they go through an array and when you click you go to the language in question, with the consequent loss of SEO positioning since the home is not generating the links to the languages.

Example of selector with flags and links:

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<ul class = "lang-inline" dir = "ltr">
	<li class = "lang-active">
		<a href="http://www.someweb.com/">
		<img src = "/ media / mod_languages ​​/ images / en.gif" alt = "ES" title = "ES">
		</a>
	</ li>
	<li>
		<a href="/en/">
		<img src = "/ media / mod_languages ​​/ images / en.gif" alt = "EN" title = "EN">
		</a>
	</ li>
</ ul>

Example of a drop-down selector without flags and with language codes (ES, EN):

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<div class = "chzn-drop">
	<div class = "chzn-search">
		<input type = "text" autocomplete = "off" readonly = "">
	</ div>
	<ul class = "chzn-results">
		<li class = "active-result result-selected highlighted" data-option-array-index = "0" style = ""> ES
		</ li>
		<li class = "active-result" data-option-array-index = "1" style = ""> EN 
		</ li>
</ div>

There is some way that the "li" in the second case (drop-down without flags and with language codes) contain the links as in the first case.

Greetings and thanks in advance

[infograf768]

1. You should update to 3.9.5
2. It looks like you do not use the default core Language Switcher

This is what we get when using it on Protostar

Screen Shot 2019-04-11 at 11.17.54.png

[jun3on]

Hi infograf768,

Thanks for answer.

I just updated joomla to 3.9.5, and when I switch to protostar template still happens the same. The selector is only showing links when I use flags.

[infograf768]

When using dropdown and not using flags, we have

Screen Shot 2019-04-12 at 10.45.12.png

Source will show

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</div><div class="well  switcherclass"><h3 class="page-header">Language Switcher</h3><div class="mod-languages switcherclass">

	<form name="lang" method="post" action="http://localhost:8888/installmulti/trunkgitnew/en/">
	<select class="inputbox advancedSelect" onchange="document.location.replace(this.value);" >
			<option dir="ltr" value="/installmulti/trunkgitnew/id/" >
		Bahasa Indonesia</option>
			<option dir="ltr" value="/installmulti/trunkgitnew/fr/" >
		Français</option>
			<option dir="ltr" value="/installmulti/trunkgitnew/en/" selected="selected">
		English (United Kingdom)</option>
			<option dir="ltr" value="/installmulti/trunkgitnew/it/" >
		Italiano (Italia)</option>
		</select>
	</form>

</div>

The links are present but do not show when hovering the language chosen.
It is perfectly OK.