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Use setLayoutProperty to switch languages dynamically. For a more complete solution see the mapbox-gl-language plugin.

Change a map's language

French
Russian
German
Spanish

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Change a map's language</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no" />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@goongmaps/goong-js@1.0.9/dist/goong-js.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@goongmaps/goong-js@1.0.9/dist/goong-js.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<style>
	body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
    #map { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<style>
    #buttons {
        width: 90%;
        margin: 0 auto;
    }
    .button {
        display: inline-block;
        position: relative;
        cursor: pointer;
        width: 20%;
        padding: 8px;
        border-radius: 3px;
        margin-top: 10px;
        font-size: 12px;
        text-align: center;
        color: #fff;
        background: #ee8a65;
        font-family: sans-serif;
        font-weight: bold;
    }
</style>
<div id="map"></div>
<ul id="buttons">
    <li id="button-fr" class="button">French</li>
    <li id="button-ru" class="button">Russian</li>
    <li id="button-de" class="button">German</li>
    <li id="button-es" class="button">Spanish</li>
</ul>
<script>
    goongjs.accessToken = 'wnicbAmnNkoMHNYUKWnlFHezV189FjmMwkNJ7hKW';
    var map = new goongjs.Map({
        container: 'map',
        style: 'https://tiles.goong.io/assets/goong_map_web.json',
        center: [16.05, 48],
        zoom: 2.9
    });

    document
        .getElementById('buttons')
        .addEventListener('click', function (event) {
            var language = event.target.id.substr('button-'.length);
            // Use setLayoutProperty to set the value of a layout property in a style layer.
            // The three arguments are the id of the layer, the name of the layout property,
            // and the new property value.
            map.setLayoutProperty('label_country', 'text-field', [
                'get',
                'name_' + language
            ]);
        });
</script>
</body>
</html>