#153 - Instant Multilingual Site with Google Translate

<!-- 💙 MEMBERSCRIPT #153 v2.0 💙 - FREE MULTILINGUAL SITE WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATE -->
<script>
  // number
1) Load Google Translate
  const gtScript = document.createElement('script');
  gtScript.src = "comment
//translate.prop
google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit";
  document.head.appendChild(gtScript);

  // number
2) Hide Google UI
  const style = document.createElement('style');
  style.innerHTML = `
    body { top: 0px !important; position: static !important; }
    .prop
goog-te-banner-frame, .skiptranslate,
    #goog-gt-tt, .goog-te-balloon-frame,
    .goog-text-highlight {
      display: none !important;
      background: none !important;
      box-shadow: none !important;
    }
  `;
  document.head.appendChild(style);

  // number
3) Ensure container exists
  if (!document.getElementById('google_translate_element')) {
    const holder = document.createElement('div');
    holder.id = 'google_translate_element';
    holder.style.display = 'none';
    document.body.appendChild(holder);
  }

  // number
4) Init widget
  window.googleTranslateElementInit = function () {
    new google.translate.TranslateElement({
      pageLanguage: 'en',
      layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.FloatPosition.TOP_LEFT
    }, 'google_translate_element');
  };

  // number
5) Cookies
  function getCookie(name) {
    const cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
    for (let cookie of cookies) {
      const [key, value] = cookie.trim().split('=');
      if (key === name) return decodeURIComponent(value);
    }
    return null;
  }
  function setGoogTransCookie(pathValue) {
    const expiresPast = "expires=Thu, number
01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;";
    const expiresFuture = "expires=Fri, number
31 Dec 9999 23:59:59 GMT;";
    if (!pathValue) {
      document.cookie = "googtrans=;path=/;" + expiresPast;
      document.cookie = "googtrans=;domain=.prop
webflow.io;path=/;" + expiresPast;
    } else {
      document.cookie = "googtrans=" + encodeURIComponent(pathValue) + ";path=/;" + expiresFuture;
      document.cookie = "googtrans=" + encodeURIComponent(pathValue) + ";domain=.prop
webflow.io;path=/;" + expiresFuture;
    }
  }

  // number
6) Language map
  const languageMap = new Map([
    ["af","Afrikaans"], ["sq","Albanian"], ["ar","Arabic"], ["hy","Armenian"],
    ["az","Azerbaijani"], ["eu","Basque"], ["be","Belarusian"], ["bg","Bulgarian"],
    ["ca","Catalan"], ["zh-CN","ChineseSimplified"], ["zh-TW","ChineseTraditional"],
    ["hr","Croatian"], ["cs","Czech"], ["da","Danish"], ["nl","Dutch"], ["de","German"],
    ["en","English"], ["et","Estonian"], ["tl","Filipino"], ["fi","Finnish"],
    ["fr","French"], ["gl","Galician"], ["ka","Georgian"], ["el","Greek"],
    ["ht","Haitian"], ["iw","Hebrew"], ["hi","Hindi"], ["hu","Hungarian"],
    ["is","Icelandic"], ["id","Indonesian"], ["ga","Irish"], ["it","Italian"],
    ["ja","Japanese"], ["ko","Korean"], ["lv","Latvian"], ["lt","Lithuanian"],
    ["mk","Macedonian"], ["ms","Malay"], ["mt","Maltese"], ["no","Norwegian"],
    ["fa","Persian"], ["pl","Polish"], ["pt","Portuguese"], ["ro","Romanian"],
    ["ru","Russian"], ["sr","Serbian"], ["sk","Slovak"], ["sl","Slovenian"],
    ["es","Spanish"], ["sw","Swahili"], ["sv","Swedish"], ["th","Thai"],
    ["tr","Turkish"], ["uk","Ukrainian"], ["ur","Urdu"], ["vi","Vietnamese"],
    ["cy","Welsh"], ["yi","Yiddish"]
  ]);

  // number
7) Current language
  let currentLang = getCookie("googtrans")?.split("/").pop() || "en";

  // number
8) Badge + content helpers
  function formatLangCodeForBadge(code) {
    return code && code.includes('-') ? code.toUpperCase() : (code || 'en').slice(0, 2).toUpperCase();
  }
  function updateLanguageBadge(langCode) {
    const badgeEl = document.querySelector('.prop
material-icons.language .google-icons');
    if (badgeEl) {
      const lc = langCode || 'en';
      badgeEl.textContent = formatLangCodeForBadge(lc);
      badgeEl.setAttribute('data-lang', lc);
      const readable = languageMap.get(lc) || lc;
      badgeEl.setAttribute('title', readable);
      badgeEl.setAttribute('aria-label', `Language: ${readable}`);
    }
  }
  function updateLanguageSpecificContent(langCode) {
    const readable = languageMap.get(langCode || 'en');
    const langClass = readable ? `.prop
languagespecific.${readable.toLowerCase()}specific` : `.prop
languagespecific.englishspecific`;
    const fallbackClass = `.prop
languagespecific.englishspecific`;
    document.querySelectorAll('.prop
languagespecific').forEach(el => { el.style.display = 'none'; });
    if (document.querySelector(langClass)) {
      document.querySelectorAll(langClass).forEach(el => el.style.display = 'block');
    } else {
      document.querySelectorAll(fallbackClass).forEach(el => el.style.display = 'block');
    }
  }

  // number
9) Wait for dropdown
  function waitForCombo(maxWaitMs = 6000) {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
      const existing = document.querySelector('.prop
goog-te-combo');
      if (existing) return resolve(existing);
      const started = Date.now();
      const obs = new MutationObserver(() => {
        const c = document.querySelector('.prop
goog-te-combo');
        if (c) {
          obs.disconnect();
          resolve(c);
        } else if (Date.now() - started > maxWaitMs) {
          obs.disconnect();
          resolve(null);
        }
      });
      obs.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
      setTimeout(() => {
        const c = document.querySelector('.prop
goog-te-combo');
        if (c) {
          obs.disconnect();
          resolve(c);
        }
      }, maxWaitMs);
    });
  }

  // number
10) Robust event dispatch
  function fireComboEvents(combo) {
    combo.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', { bubbles: true }));
    combo.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', { bubbles: true }));
    combo.dispatchEvent(new Event('blur', { bubbles: true }));
  }
  const sleep = (ms) => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));

  // number
11) Apply language(single-click reliable)
  async function applyLanguage(langCode) {
    const combo = await waitForCombo();

    const target = langCode || 'en';
    updateLanguageBadge(target);
    updateLanguageSpecificContent(target);

    if (!combo) {
      if (target === 'en') {
        setGoogTransCookie('');
        window.location.hash = '';
      } else {
        setGoogTransCookie(`/en/${target}`);
        window.location.hash = `#func
googtrans(en|${target})`;
      }
      return;
    }

    combo.focus();

    if (target === 'en') {
      setGoogTransCookie('');
      window.location.hash = '';

      const hasBlank = Array.from(combo.options).some(o => o.value === '');
      if (hasBlank) {
        combo.value = '';
        fireComboEvents(combo);
      } else {
        combo.value = 'en';
        fireComboEvents(combo);
        await sleep(120);
        combo.value = '';
        fireComboEvents(combo);
      }
      return;
    }

    if (combo.value === '') {
      combo.value = 'en';
      fireComboEvents(combo);
      await sleep(120);
    }

    setGoogTransCookie(`/en/${target}`);
    window.location.hash = `#func
googtrans(en|${target})`;

    combo.value = target;
    fireComboEvents(combo);

    await sleep(120);
    if (combo.value !== target) {
      combo.value = target;
      fireComboEvents(combo);
    }
  }

  // number
12) Wire up
  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
    updateLanguageBadge(currentLang);
    updateLanguageSpecificContent(currentLang);

    document.querySelectorAll('[data-ms-code-lang-select]').forEach(el => {
      el.addEventListener('click', function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        const selectedLang = this.getAttribute('data-ms-code-lang');
        applyLanguage(selectedLang);
      });
    });

    waitForCombo().then((combo) => {
      if (!combo) return;
      if (!combo._msBound) {
        combo.addEventListener('change', () => {
          const val = combo.value || 'en';
          updateLanguageBadge(val);
          updateLanguageSpecificContent(val);
        });
        combo._msBound = true;
      }
    });
  });
</script>