HTMLElement: translate property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2023⁩.

The translate property of the HTMLElement interface indicates whether an element's attribute values and the values of its Text node children are to be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged.

It reflects the value of the translate HTML global attribute.

Value

A boolean value that is true if an element's attribute values and the values of its Text node children are to be translated when the page is localized, false otherwise.

Examples

The following example shows how to enable or disable translation via script:

html

<div>
  <span>The content may always be translated: </span>
  <span translate="yes">El contenido será traducido</span>
</div>
<div>
  <span id="translate-label">The content may be translated:</span>
  <span id="translate-element" translate="no">
    El contenido puede ser traducido.
  </span>
</div>
<input id="translate-controller" type="checkbox" /> Enable translation

const label = document.getElementById("translate-label");
const element = document.getElementById("translate-element");
const controller = document.getElementById("translate-controller");

controller.addEventListener("change", (e) => {
  if (controller.checked) {
    element.translate = true;
    label.innerText = "The content may be translated:";
  } else {
    element.translate = false;
    label.innerText = "The content may not be translated:";
  }
});