I am not using any third party modules like Apollo or anything.  We want to use text links instead of the flag images to switch languages.
I found the code below that does show text instead of flags - BUT when the admin switches the Mode to Layout - the site crashes.  It won't come back up until I comment the =Link

We really wanted to use the drop down selection but it always reverts back to English when were logged in.

Anyone have a working solution for this?

Thanks.

<script runat="server">
    Dim LinkChange As String
    
    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        If (Request.QueryString("language")) = "fr-CA" Then
            LinkChange = "<a href='/tabid/" & Me.PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID.ToString() & "/language/en-US/Default.aspx'><span>English</span></a>"
        Else
            LinkChange = "<a href='/tabid/" & Me.PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID.ToString() & "/language/fr-CA/Default.aspx'><span>Fran&#231;ais</span></a>"
        End If
    End Sub
</script>

<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
                      <tr>
                        <td align="right" valign="top" id="TopLinkPane" runat="server">
                            <%= LinkChange %>                         
                        </td>                                            
                      </tr>
</table>

<dnn:LANGUAGE runat="server" id="dnnLANGUAGE"  showMenu="True" showLinks="False" />
This will show the dropdown selection - which doesn't work correctly.

<dnn:LANGUAGE runat="server" id="dnnLANGUAGE"  showMenu="False" showLinks="True" />
This will show the Flags..

We want something that will show the link like this:
English / French

does this do it?
<dnn:LANGUAGE runat="server" ID="dnnLANGUAGE" ShowLinks="True" ShowMenu="False" ItemTemplate='<a href="[URL]" class="Language" title="[CULTURE:ENGLISHNAME]"><span class="Language[SELECTED]">[CULTURE:ENGLISHNAME]</span></a>

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