Google Website Translator Automatic Display Mode

Question

I\'m trying to include google website translator on my website. I want to use the automatic thing so the bar shows up if your browser language is different to the page langu

Answer 1

I saw another example here:

Detect User's Preferred Language and Google Translate Automatically

This had the parameter autoDisplay: false,

To get only the translation bar when the site language doesn't match I have deleted the container, and used autoDisplay: true,

I get the bar when in another language, but no drop down.

Answer 2

To display the translator only when your page is different from the user's page, have a server side check and only include the code if necessary.

See Getting Browser Language

Your URL is incorrect. Add "http:". See working example below.

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

<script type="text/javascript">

function googleTranslateElementInit() {
  new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en',
    layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.FloatPosition.TOP_LEFT},
    'google_translate_element');
}

</script>

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