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Translate my page with google translate

As we all know the world is getting multilingual,in our daily lives, specially on internet we find the things which are in another language and we need a way to translate it into the language we understand

As we all know about Google Translate is the place we all will go and paste the content that we want to translate,but what if we have power of that tool into our website or web page,yes it is possible with GOOGLE TRANSLATE (which is able to translate the page into more than 50 languages) to have that integrated into your own website,today we will see how with example



This tool is available from quite sometimes now,but the point is very less of the people from developer community are aware of this,so the reason behind this post is to show how any developer can make use of it and make it so simple to translate their pages...


The process...


The only need to have the power of translation on your website is copy and paste snippet of following code into your web page

<div id="google_translate_element">
</div>
<script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({
pageLanguage: 'en'
}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>
<script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit">
</script>

Just put above snippet in your HTML mark up and run the page,you will get standard google translator logo as well as few options which we are interested in right now,see the image below




now you have the full control over language change,just select the language from available languages and see how google translate it for you

What if i do not want to translate some of the content???
Now question comes is what if there are certain portion which you do not want to translate and you want to keep it as it is,so that fix is also there,say there is copyright text or email address which you want to keep as it is,so you just have to add one CSS class to it and gogle will take care of it like following

Contact us at <span class="notranslate">daivagnas@gmail.com</span>

Now if you do not want to translate whole page so just add following

<meta name="google" value="notranslate"></meta>

I was quite amazed with the power which google provides,i hope you also do...i hope this post was useful


To see live demo just have a look at the gadget on this page at top-right-most corner
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Comments

  1. KamalAugust 31, 2010 at 3:29 AM

    Thanks buddy very useful information.
    Keep sharing such information.

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  2. Mitul NakumAugust 31, 2010 at 3:38 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  3. Daivagna NanavatiAugust 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM

    hi mitul

    i have also describe the same thing in my blog as well,that if you want to translate only part of the page you can also do it...you just have to put class="notranslate" and rest will be taken care,and yeah thxs for pointing the mistake out..i have fix it :)

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  4. Daivagna NanavatiAugust 31, 2010 at 3:56 AM

    Hi kamlesh

    thxs for the comments,i will be posting some useful posts in coming days,i think you will get notification as you are in my post mailling list...

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  5. TarjSeptember 1, 2010 at 2:11 AM

    Useful post and really nice, informative and useful blog for IT Departments.

    ReplyDelete
  6. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:57 AM

    Great job buddy..... I tried same code & implemented in first try.....
    Thanks a lot for this kind of post...Keep going...

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM

    this shows the power of technology and the extent the web has gone these days.
    good post.

    ReplyDelete

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