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Is there any good example where I can use Google Translate for translations inside html page? I mean, if I click on german flag (button) than translate to german etc... My question is how to simulate this combo box for specific languages? https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_translate.asp
Thanks
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asked Aug 06 '26 11:08
You can hide this auto-created selection-field and set it's value dynamically by iterating over each option-field to search for the desired language that you can choose via an input-field.
Hope this helps:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<body>
<h1>My Web Page</h1>
<p>Hello everybody!</p>
<p>Translate this page.</p>
<!-- hide auto-created selection field completely by hiding it's container -->
<div id="google_translate_element" style="display:none"></div>
<p>You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the input field.</p>
<!-- flag: you can choose language here: en, de, af etc. -->
<input value="en" id="language"/>
<button onclick="changeLanguageByButtonClick()">Translate</button>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: "en"}, 'google_translate_element');
}
function changeLanguageByButtonClick() {
var language = document.getElementById("language").value;
var selectField = document.querySelector("#google_translate_element select");
for(var i=0; i < selectField.children.length; i++){
var option = selectField.children[i];
// find desired langauge and change the former language of the hidden selection-field
if(option.value==language){
selectField.selectedIndex = i;
// trigger change event afterwards to make google-lib translate this side
selectField.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
break;
}
}
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
</html>
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