This notification system is now a legacy feature. Please see Using centralised notifications for details on using the modern notification system. You can also view our Transitioning to new seminar notifications guidance.
As with other HTML content, you can include multi-language content in legacy seminar notifications using span tags. For example, you could include French content using this format:
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French paragraph</span>For simple content you can easily include each different language in the appropriate span tags, for example:
<span class="multilang" lang="en">English paragraph 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French paragraph 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="nl">Dutch paragraph 1</span>However, for more complex content comprising multiple paragraphs, bullet-point lists, or other formatting, the language tags will need to be contained within the structure tags (e.g. <p> </p> tags for paragraphs).
Here is an example of how to format a complex seminar notification in multiple languages:
// Paragraph 1
<p>
<span class="multilang" lang="en">English paragraph 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French paragraph 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="nl">Dutch paragraph 1</span>
</p>
// Unordered list with 3 list items
<ul>
<li>
<span class="multilang" lang="en">English list item 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French list item 1</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="nl">Dutch list item 1</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="multilang" lang="en">English list item 2</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French list item 2</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="nl">Dutch list item 2</span>
</li>
</ul>
// Paragraph 2
<p>
<span class="multilang" lang="en">English paragraph 2</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="fr">French paragraph 2</span>
<span class="multilang" lang="nl">Dutch paragraph 2</span>
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