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Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

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Suraj_Singh
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‎04-16-2021 10:57 AM
‎04-16-2021 10:57 AM

Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

I'm working on the new email template and trying to create <html  lang="${Language}"> as global variable so it will used for multiple locale based on the region (eg: ja,th,ru,ko,en) per accessibility . Generally this helps to ensure that the screen reader is pronouncing words the way they were intended 

 

 

Currently its hardcored as "en" in <html section >

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<!--Global Variables Begin-->
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailTitle" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Title" />
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="language" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Language" />

<!--Toggle Mobile View Meta Tags End-->

<!--Other Meta Tags Begin-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="width=device-width, minimal-ui, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>${emailTitle}</title>

<head>

Container area

<body>

</body>

</html>
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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-16-2021 08:48 PM
‎04-16-2021 08:48 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Or just do it like this (yes, tested):

<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailLanguage" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Language" /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="${emailLanguage}" xml:lang="${emailLanguage}"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<!--Global Variables Begin-->
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailTitle" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Title" />
<!--Other Meta Tags Begin-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="width=device-width, minimal-ui, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>${emailTitle}</title>
<head>
Container area
<body>
</body>
</html>

 

 The Marketo-specific <meta> tags in a template are preprocessor tags anyway. They don't appear in the final HTML output. Like tags you might use in a tag-based templating language (PHP, CFML, etc.).

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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-16-2021 01:10 PM
‎04-16-2021 01:10 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

... and what happens if you attempt to make it a global string variable?

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Suraj_Singh
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‎04-16-2021 01:46 PM
‎04-16-2021 01:46 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Generally we defined the Marketo Variables under the <head> tag post the we use these variables in the html structure<body> for declaration. but in current case its above the <head> tag and we can not defined the  variable  in that way.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="${lang}" xml:lang="${lang}"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">

 

 

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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-16-2021 01:50 PM
‎04-16-2021 01:50 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Please remember to use the Syntax Highlighter. (I edited your post again.)

 

My question is not theoretical, but rather what actually happens when you declare the variable in a child <meta> tag but use it in the parent <html> tag?

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Dave_Roberts
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‎04-16-2021 07:15 PM
‎04-16-2021 07:15 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

I was actually surprised that the template validated here, I expected it to error out on approval. Instead, not only does the "Validate HTML" tool overlook the error here, but it's also not caught in the approval process the way it is if the variable is missing instead.

 

Here's a look at a quick test I setup - looks like the code view catches the issue here and highlights the variable issue: 

inputinput

 

... then when you preview the template (and granted this is the preview in browser <iframe> piece not an actual sent email asset) but it looks like it's writing the xml:lang="en" and lang="en" attributes on the html element but I don't see the variable value (TEST) coming thru anywhere.

outputoutput

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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-16-2021 08:03 PM
‎04-16-2021 08:03 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Setting lang on the <title> and <body> elements should be more than sufficient here.

Also, the XHTML doctype seems out of place. Where is this email served with an XML MIME type? (Answer: nowhere!). EDIT: OK, I'll let this go for but haven't advised XHTML in a really long time.

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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-16-2021 08:48 PM
‎04-16-2021 08:48 PM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Or just do it like this (yes, tested):

<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailLanguage" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Language" /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="${emailLanguage}" xml:lang="${emailLanguage}"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<!--Global Variables Begin-->
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailTitle" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Title" />
<!--Other Meta Tags Begin-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="width=device-width, minimal-ui, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>${emailTitle}</title>
<head>
Container area
<body>
</body>
</html>

 

 The Marketo-specific <meta> tags in a template are preprocessor tags anyway. They don't appear in the final HTML output. Like tags you might use in a tag-based templating language (PHP, CFML, etc.).

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Dave_Roberts
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‎04-17-2021 06:29 AM
‎04-17-2021 06:29 AM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

Brilliant! That's some "outside the box" thinking there - thanks for testing this out, it's one to keep in the toolbox for sure.

 

 

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Suraj_Singh
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‎04-19-2021 11:08 AM
‎04-19-2021 11:08 AM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

5t3UFQsjTDpB68z.pngHi Team,

Thanks for your help  on it.

As per your reference, I've implemented the changing in the MKO Template & approved it.

But unfortunately it doesn't work on the email level. it automatically moved the '<meta class="mktoString" default="en" id="emailLanguage" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Language" />' under the <head> tag

 

Doctype is also removed from the email level

 

Code in MKTO template

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<meta class="mktoString" default="en" id="emailLanguage" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Language" />
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="${emailLanguage}" xml:lang="${emailLanguage}"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<!--Global Variables Begin-->
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailTitle" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Title" />
<!--Other Meta Tags Begin-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="width=device-width, minimal-ui, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>${emailTitle}</title>
<head>
<body>Container area
</body>
</html>

 

 

Code in Synced in email (Template:MKTO template)

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="${emailLanguage}" xml:lang="${emailLanguage}" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<meta class="mktoString" default="en" id="emailLanguage" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Language">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
<!--Global Variables Begin-->
<meta class="mktoString" default="" id="emailTitle" mktomodulescope="false" mktoname="Email Title" />
<!--Other Meta Tags Begin-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="width=device-width, minimal-ui, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>${emailTitle}</title>
<head>
<body>Container area
</body>
</html>

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SanfordWhiteman
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‎04-19-2021 11:15 AM
‎04-19-2021 11:15 AM

Re: Need to Define lang="${Language}" as global variable in mkto email template

It worked fine for me. I'll retest and see if there's some wrinkle here.

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