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How To Add Google Translate Button On Your Webpage?

Last Updated : 24 Jun, 2024
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Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text from one language into another. It offers a website interface, mobile apps for Android and iOS, and an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. Google Translate supports over 100 languages at various levels.

Following are the steps to add a Google Translate button on your website which are as follows:

Step 1: Start with a basic web page and add a "div" element.

In the code below a "div" element with the id "google_translate_element" is created.

Syntax:

<div id="google_translate_element"></div>

 
Step 2: Add Google Translate API reference.

Syntax:

<script type="text/javaScript"
src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?
cb= googleTranslateElementInit"></script>

 
Step 3: Add Javascript function.

Syntax:

<script type="text/javaScript">
function googleTranslateElementInit()
{
new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en'},
'google_translate_element');
}
</script>

Example: To demonstrate adding google translate button on webpage. 

html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">

<head>
    <title>
        How To Add Google Translate
        Button On Your Webpage ?
    </title>
</head>

<body>
    <p>Hello everyone!</p>
    <p>Welcome to GeeksforGeeks</p>

    <p>
        Translate this page in
        your preferred language:
    </p>

    <div id="google_translate_element"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        function googleTranslateElementInit() {
            new google.translate.TranslateElement(
                {pageLanguage: 'en'},
                'google_translate_element'
            );
        }
    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src=
"https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?
cb=googleTranslateElementInit">
    </script>

    <p>
        You can translate the content of this
        page by selecting a language in the
        select box.
    </p>
</body>

</html>

Output:

lang
Output

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