Detecting Google Chrome Translation

Question

I\'ve added the Google Translation Bar to our website but due to how the layout works if the translation on the main navigation is longer than English is pushes some links d

Answer 1

I just wrote an article on detecting automatic machine-translations in Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, and Microsoft Translate Extension. I haven’t figured out how to detect Naver Whale browser yet, which is the last browser with a built-in page translation feature.

The short and sweet of it is watching out for the following DOM markers:

!!document.querySelector("html.translated-ltr, head.translated-rtl, ya-tr-span, *[_msttexthash]");

You can detect web-based proxy translation services from a list of domain names (found in the linked article.)