Version and Compatibility

The current version of the Language Navigation Component is v2, which was introduced with release 2.18.0 of the Core Components in February 2022, and is described in this document.

The following table details all supported versions of the component, the AEM versions with which the versions of the component is compatible, and links to documentation for previous versions.

Component VersionAEM 6.4AEM 6.5AEM 6.5 LTSAEM as a Cloud Service
v2-CompatibleCompatibleCompatible
v1CompatibleCompatible-Compatible

For more information about Core Component versions and releases, see the document Core Components Versions.

Sample Component Output

To experience the Language Navigation Component as well as see examples of its configuration options as well as HTML and JSON output, visit the Component Library.

Technical Details

The latest technical documentation about the Language Navigation Component can be found on GitHub.

Further details about developing Core Components can be found in the Core Components developer documentation.

Design Dialog

The design dialog allows the definition of the global site navigation root as well as how deep into the structure the navigation should go.

Typically these configurations only need to be done at the page template level. However, they can be changed on the page level via the edit dialog.

Properties Tab

Language Navigation Component's design dialog

  • Navigation Root

    • This is where the language navigation of the site should start.
    • The language structure of the site begins on the next level below this root.
  • Language Structure Depth

    • This is how many levels of the content tree below the Navigation Root represent the language structure of the site. Examples:

      • 1 typically means that you only have the choice of language.
      • 2 typically means that you have a choice of language and country.
      • 3 typically means that you have a choice of language, country, and region.

Example

Let’s say that your content looks something like this:

/content
+-- wknd
   +-- language-masters
   +-- us
      +-- en
      \-- es
   \-- ch
      +-- de
      +-- fr
      \-- it
+-- wknd-events
\-- wknd-shop

For the site WKND, you would probably want to place the Language Navigation component on a page template as part of the header. Once part of the template, you can set the Navigation Root of the component to /content/wknd since that is where your localized content for that site begins. You would also want to set the Language Structure Depth to be 2 since your structure is of two levels (country then language).

With the Navigation Root value, the Language Component knows that after /content/wknd that that the navigation begins and it can generate language navigation options by recognizing the next two levels in the content tree as the site’s language navigation structure (as defined by the Language Structure Depth value).

No matter what page a user is viewing, the Language Navigation component is able find the corresponding page in another language, by knowing the location of the current page and working backwards to the root, and then forwards to the corresponding page.