Title: Dropdown navigation multilanguage categories
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Dropdown navigation multilanguage categories

 *  [Stef Verbeeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twizted/)
 * (@twizted)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-navigation-multilanguage-categories/)
 * Hi all,
 * We have developed a site recently and there seems to be a problem with the navigation
   when we use a dropdown selection menu to navigate from page to page.
 * On this [page with references](http://www.agt.be/en/references), we provide a
   simple dropdown menu in order to allow the visitor to narrow down the posts (
   custom post type “references”) according to their categories (custom taxonomy“
   protype”).
 * This works fine in the default Dutch (NL) language, but fails in the selected
   English (EN) language. As you select a category from the dropdown menu, it refers
   back to the NL version of the page for no apparent reason.
 * This is the code used:
 *     ```
       <form action="../">
       <select onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_top')">
           <option value="/<?php _e('[:nl]nl[:fr]fr[:en]en'); ?>/references/"><?php _e('[:nl]Alle diensten[:fr]Tous services[:en]All services'); ?></option>
           <?php
       	$categories = get_categories("taxonomy=protype");
   
           foreach($categories as $category){
       		$option = "<option value='/". __('[:nl]nl[:fr]fr[:en]en') ."/protype/" .$category->slug."/'>";
       		$option .= $category->name;
       		$option .= "</option>";
       		echo $option;
       	}
           ?>
       </select>
       </form>
       ```
   
 * Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance.

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 * [dropdown](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dropdown/)
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 * Last reply from: [Stef Verbeeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twizted/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-navigation-multilanguage-categories/)
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