I just made a website for a french restaurant. The website is in english, but I guess there is enough french on the website (labeled pictures of menu items) to prompt the visitor to translate the website if using Chrome.
Is there something I can add to the html to prevent chrome from asking to translate the page? I'd assume it'd be something like <html lang="en"> but that doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Add translate="no" to your <html> tag, like so:
<html translate="no">
(This should still work but is less desirable because it is Google-specific, and there are other translation services out there.)
Add this tag in between <head> and </head>:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">
value attribute should be changed to content="notranslate" in order to pass HTML5 validation. –
Polson content="translate" to enable the auto translation. –
Kadi <pre> or <code> where you will write codes or commands, you can also use <pre translate="no"> or <code translate="no"> –
Mop So for the ultimate solution I made;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="notranslate" translate="no">
<head>
<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
This worked for me.
The meta tag in the <head> didn't work for me, but
class="notranslate"
added to a parent div (or even <body>) did work and allows more precise control of the content you don't want to be translated.
Solution:
<html lang="en" class="notranslate" translate="no"> <!-- All translators -->
<head><meta name="google" content="notranslate" /> <!-- Just for google -->
</head> <!-- Close head -->
The more simple way is just adding the translate="no" proprety. This can be made in divs, text and more. Here's an example:
// Just for instructions
// Do not copy or paste
console.log("The first div don't alows translateing. But the second, alows it.")
console.log("Open the translator and see the efect.")DIV1
<div translate="no">
Try translating me!
<b>Olá - Hello - Hola</b>
</div>
<hr> DIV2
<div translate="">
Now, you can do it!
<b>Olá - Hello - Hola</b>
</div>Note that this example has some problems with the StackOverflow viewer.
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Add this in your <head>:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
and change your <html> tag to
<html lang="en" class="notranslate" translate="no">
The more simple way is just adding the translate="no" proprety. This can be made in divs, text and more. Here's an example:
/* Just some basic styling */
div[translate] {
width: 50%;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 20px;
border-radius: 7px;
text-align: center;
font-family: Arial;
}<div style="display: flex;gap:20px;">
<div translate="no"> <!-- Disables translation -->
Enabled<br>
<b>Olá - Hello - Hola</b>
</div>
<div translate> <!-- Enables translation -->
Disabled<br>
<b>Olá - Hello - Hola</b>
</div>
</div>Note that this example has some problems on the stackoverflow viewer.
Disable google translate on your website
Add this to your <head></head>:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
My Windows is german in german.
I made the following experiences in Chrome: If I set
<html lang="en" translate="no">
Google Translate comes up with suggestion to translate english.
Definitely I have to omit the lang property. This works for me:
<html translate="no">
No popup is coming up and the translation icon in the URL field is no longer displayed.
The google tag for not translating the page has been updated to
<!-- opt out of translation features on all search engines that support this directive -->
<meta name="robots" content="notranslate">
or
<!-- opt out of translation features on Google -->
<meta name="googlebot" content="notranslate">
For more info check this links:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/special-tags
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/translated-results
Moreover, I had to update this because it was not working on Edge browser by using only translate="no" as below:
<html translate="no">
So for a full solution as mentioned here too, i had to do something like this to not translate anything from search engines
<html lang="en" class="notranslate" translate="no">
<meta name="robots" content="notranslate" />
...
</head>
FYI, if you want something that will work for all content in your site (including that which is not HTML), you can set the Content-Language header in your response (source) to the appropriate language, (in my case, en-US).
This has the benefit here is that it will "disable" the offer to translate the page for you (because it will know the source language correctly), but for other, non-native readers, they will still have the option to translate your site into their own language, and it will work correctly.
(Also for my use case, where Chrome was offering to translate well formatted JSON from latin to English, that BS goes away.)
sometimes you need to block not all html, but specific element, in such case you could add class="notranslate" only to that element.
ie. <div class="notranslate"> some content </div>
Initially I added just <html translate="no"> but although that seemed to work for Edge and Firefox it wasn't working for Chrome (despite wiping site data, closing/reopening Chrome, doing Ctrl-F5 hard refresh). I tried adding lang="en" too but that didn't help.
I then added the <meta name="google" content="notranslate"> 'older' solution to the <head> tag and that finally stopped it from offering it. This was despite the page having basically no content (it's just a redirect page), but it seemed to keep thinking the .mobi TLD was in Arabic!
I've left both solutions in place and that seems to have sorted things.
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lang="en"worked, it would not just "disable" google translate for him, but it would fix it for the non-English speakers who might need it. – Flapper