Placing the selector yourself Optional
Use the <ft-selector> tag
For full control — inside a menu, header or footer — add data-auto-selector="false" to the loader snippet, then add the <ft-selector> tag once anywhere in your HTML. It will use the languages, colours and behaviour you have configured in the dashboard.
<nav> <a href="/">Home</a> <a href="/contact">Contact</a> <ft-selector></ft-selector> </nav>
<ft-selector> is a placement marker only. Do not add inline styles to it — use the CSS hooks below instead.
Styling the selector with CSS
Advanced CSS with ::part() not needed
For designers who want to go further, the selector exposes shadow-DOM parts you can target with ::part().
::part(container)— the wrapper around the button and dropdown.::part(button)— the clickable trigger.::part(panel)— the dropdown list background.::part(item)— each language row in the dropdown.::part(icon)— the icon image, when one is configured.
ft-selector::part(button) {
font-size: 16px;
color: blue;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
border: 1px solid green;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
ft-selector::part(panel) {
background: white;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
padding: 10px;
max-height: 200px;
overflow-y: auto;
}
ft-selector::part(item):hover {
background: #f5f5f5;
}
URL parameters Reference
Override settings per page load not used
You can override settings for a single page load by adding parameters to the URL. These take priority over your dashboard settings.
| Parameter | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
lang | Open the page in a specific language. | ?lang=fr |
Language codes Reference
Use these codes when choosing translation languages in the dashboard, translation overrides, or the lang URL parameter.
Show all language codes select languages in your dashboard
| Code | Language |
|---|---|
| af | 🇿🇦 Afrikaans (Afrikaans) |
| am | 🇪🇹 አማርኛ (Amharic) |
| ar | 🇸🇦 العربية (Arabic) |
| az | 🇦🇿 Azərbaycan dili (Azerbaijani) |
| be | 🇧🇾 Беларуская (Belarusian) |
| bg | 🇧🇬 Български (Bulgarian) |
| bn | 🇧🇩 বাংলা (Bengali) |
| bs | 🇧🇦 Bosanski (Bosnian) |
| ca | 🇪🇸 Català (Catalan) |
| cs | 🇨🇿 Čeština (Czech) |
| cy | 🏴 Cymraeg (Welsh) |
| da | 🇩🇰 Dansk (Danish) |
| de | 🇩🇪 Deutsch (German) |
| el | 🇬🇷 Ελληνικά (Greek) |
| en | 🇬🇧 English (English) |
| es | 🇪🇸 Español (Spanish) |
| et | 🇪🇪 Eesti (Estonian) |
| fa | 🇮🇷 فارسی (Persian) |
| fi | 🇫🇮 Suomi (Finnish) |
| fr | 🇫🇷 Français (French) |
| ga | 🇮🇪 Gaeilge (Irish) |
| gl | 🇪🇸 Galego (Galician) |
| gu | 🇮🇳 ગુજરાતી (Gujarati) |
| he | 🇮🇱 עברית (Hebrew) |
| hi | 🇮🇳 हिन्दी (Hindi) |
| hr | 🇭🇷 Hrvatski (Croatian) |
| ht | 🇭🇹 Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole) |
| hu | 🇭🇺 Magyar (Hungarian) |
| hy | 🇦🇲 Հայերեն (Armenian) |
| id | 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) |
| is | 🇮🇸 Íslenska (Icelandic) |
| it | 🇮🇹 Italiano (Italian) |
| ja | 🇯🇵 日本語 (Japanese) |
| ka | 🇬🇪 ქართული (Georgian) |
| kk | 🇰🇿 Қазақ тілі (Kazakh) |
| km | 🇰🇭 ភាសាខ្មែរ (Khmer) |
| kn | 🇮🇳 ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) |
| ko | 🇰🇷 한국어 (Korean) |
| ku | 🇹🇷 Kurdî (Kurdish) |
| lt | 🇱🇹 Lietuvių kalba (Lithuanian) |
| lv | 🇱🇻 Latviešu valoda (Latvian) |
| mi | 🇳🇿 Te Reo Māori (Maori) |
| mk | 🇲🇰 Македонски (Macedonian) |
| ml | 🇮🇳 മലയാളം (Malayalam) |
| mn | 🇲🇳 Монгол хэл (Mongolian) |
| mr | 🇮🇳 मराठी (Marathi) |
| ms | 🇲🇾 Bahasa Melayu (Malay) |
| mt | 🇲🇹 Malti (Maltese) |
| my | 🇲🇲 မြန်မာစာ (Burmese) |
| ne | 🇳🇵 नेपाली (Nepali) |
| nl | 🇳🇱 Nederlands (Dutch) |
| no | 🇳🇴 Norsk (Norwegian) |
| pa | 🇮🇳 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi) |
| pl | 🇵🇱 Polski (Polish) |
| ps | 🇦🇫 پښتو (Pashto) |
| pt | 🇵🇹 Português (Portuguese) |
| ro | 🇷🇴 Română (Romanian) |
| ru | 🇷🇺 Русский (Russian) |
| sk | 🇸🇰 Slovenčina (Slovak) |
| sl | 🇸🇮 Slovenščina (Slovenian) |
| sm | 🇼🇸 Gagana Samoa (Samoan) |
| so | 🇸🇴 Soomaali (Somali) |
| sq | 🇦🇱 Shqip (Albanian) |
| sr | 🇷🇸 Српски (Serbian) |
| su | 🇮🇩 Basa Sunda (Sundanese) |
| sv | 🇸🇪 Svenska (Swedish) |
| sw | 🇹🇿 Kiswahili (Swahili) |
| ta | 🇮🇳 தமிழ் (Tamil) |
| te | 🇮🇳 తెలుగు (Telugu) |
| th | 🇹🇭 ไทย (Thai) |
| to | 🇹🇴 Lea fakatonga (Tongan) |
| tr | 🇹🇷 Türkçe (Turkish) |
| ug | 🇨🇳 ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur) |
| uk | 🇺🇦 Українська (Ukrainian) |
| ur | 🇵🇰 اردو (Urdu) |
| uz | 🇺🇿 Oʻzbekcha (Uzbek) |
| vi | 🇻🇳 Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) |
| xh | 🇿🇦 isiXhosa (Xhosa) |
| yi | 🇮🇱 ייִדיש (Yiddish) |
| yo | 🇳🇬 Yorùbá (Yoruba) |
| yu | 🇭🇰 廣東話 (Cantonese - Hong Kong / Macau) |
| zh | 🇨🇳 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese - Mainland) |
| zt | 🀄️ 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese - Hong Kong / Taiwan / Macau) |
| zu | 🇿🇦 isiZulu (Zulu) |