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Asked: 2026-05-22T02:25:08+00:00

I am currently working on localizing my application which is based on the .net

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I am currently working on localizing my application which is based on the .net framework v3.5, which uses the jquery client side library.

I successfully localized most of my application, on screen text via resource files, client side text via a resource javascript file and html mark up images via .net c# code.

When localizing my images, the simple change is to update the path to image to include the cultures folder eg. For english – en, spanish – es etc. So a sample image path would be

/image/folder1/en/image.gif

/image/folder2/es/image.gif

I have achieved this in my .net code and all works fine.

However I have run in to an issue. Some of my images are background images set in css. Unfortunately this raises an issue as I am unable to localize something like this:

h1 {background-image:url("../../Images/folder1/<<culture>>/image1.gif");background-repeat:no-repeat;

So I am looking for suggestion as how I could resolve this. Could I pass a javascript variable value to the css file? I could create a httphandler and update my css prior to rendering but would prefer to go with this for last resort as I don’t want every css file being processed through iis.

Any tips would be great.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Another possibility is to set lang attribute for the body (or HTML element of your interest), so that rendered HTML page will show something like this:

    <body lang="es">
  <h1>...</h1>

    Then you can use CSS lang pseudo-selector to localize the content:

    h1:lang(es) {background-image:url("../../Images/folder1/es/image1.gif");}
h1:lang(en) {background-image:url("../../Images/folder1/en/image1.gif");}

    This is standard (as in W3C recommended) way of localizing CSS files.

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