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Hi, I made my site in 2 languages. The language switcher would be nice to have in a different color.

I found this https://forum.squarespace.com/topic/193327-changing-color-on-some-navigation-links/

But with minor tweaks I did not manage to get this right, because when I select the 4th link, the wrong navigation gets colored in one language. In the other it works fine. It is because of the script I use to hide certain language pages I guess. 

Sorry for my bad English :). Any ideas?

thanks

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Can you share your website URL? What method did you use to create the dual language website? Weglot?

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Try this custom CSS:

a.multilanguage {
  color:red;
}

Let me know if that works.

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Thanks Ziggy, but it is not working. I have made the language switcher another way. See screenshot of pages.

image.png.c12bdba98e3a54a550041102a8b37950.png

When I use this code:  

nav.header-nav-list>div:nth-child(4) a {

    color: red;

}

 

I get this: 

image.thumb.png.deecaab335867d4b29ef81b414495813.png

Which is good. But then on the other language I get this:

image.thumb.png.d183379297c08f01295e413e63cfc5ac.png

Which is not good. 🙂

Any thoughts? Thanks

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Strange, you could try using last-child:

nav.header-nav-list>div:last-child a {
    color: red;
}

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Try this then!

nav.header-nav-list>div:nth-child(4n) a  {
    color: red;
}

The 4n selects the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th.....

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I'm very confused! I count as the 4th and 8th:

image.png.11c5f866acfc605703124ce4dd334f3e.png

Would you be up for giving me access to the website so I can quickly work on a solution? PM me if you do.

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On 2/13/2023 at 4:35 PM, arie said:

The language switcher would be nice to have in a different color. I did not manage to get this right, because when I select the 4th link, the wrong navigation gets colored in one language.

If you add code that references the "nth" element, it can be difficult to maintain the code, especially when the content is dynamic - in this case due to the language switching.

Instead, you can reference the url of those external links, like this:

/* Change color of language links */
.header-nav-item.header-nav-item--external a[href="/english"], .header-nav-item.header-nav-item--external a[href="/en/nederlands"],  {
  color: red;
}

This will only affect the desktop navigation. If you want to set an alternative colour for the mobile navigation, you'll want to add some CSS for this too. For example:

/* Language links on mobile nav */
.header-menu .header-menu-nav a[href="/english"], .header-menu .header-menu-nav a[href="/en/nederlands"] {
  color: white!important;
}

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21 minutes ago, amrizo said:

does this also work on 7.0??

Unlike v7.1 which has a single template and structure, version 7.0 has many different ones. You’ll need to provide us with a working link to your site for us to check.

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