This example demonstrates how to change language after initialization. i18next library detects the language on init, this language can be changed to any available language after initialization by calling initialized event i18next.on('initialized', function(options) {}).

                        
                            <div aria-labelledby="dropdown-flag" class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right">
                                <a href="#" class="dropdown-item">
                                    <i class="flag-icon flag-icon-gb"></i> English
                                </a>
                                <a href="#" class="dropdown-item">
                                    <i class="flag-icon flag-icon-es"></i> Spanish
                                </a>
                                <a href="#" class="dropdown-item">
                                    <i class="flag-icon flag-icon-pt"></i> Portuguese
                                </a>
                                <a href="#" class="dropdown-item">
                                    <i class="flag-icon flag-icon-fr"></i> French
                                </a>
                            </div>
                        
                    

                        
                            i18next
                                .use(window.i18nextXHRBackend)
                                .init({
                                    debug: true,
                                    fallbackLng: false,
                                    backend: {
                                        loadPath: "../../../app-assets/data/locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json",
                                    },
                                    returnObjects: true
                                },
                                function (err, t) {
                                    // Initialize Localization
                                    jqueryI18next.init(i18next, $);
                                });
                            // After InIt Event
                            i18next.on('initialized', function(options) {
                                // Change language
                                i18next.changeLanguage('en', function (err, t){
                                    $('.main-menu').localize();
                                });
                            });