How to block bar suggestion of Google Chrome

HTML & CSS
1

I’m brazilian and Google Chrome always show that bar saying that my pages are in English, but are not…

My DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="pt-BR">

and a screenshot:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="pt-BR">

<head>
        <title>Teste pt-BR</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>

<body>
        
        <h1>teste de conteúdo em pt-BR</h1>
        <p>Este texto é o único conteúdo do site e está em pt-BR</p>
        
</body>

</html>

Is there anything else to make the browser identify which language the page?
Thanks.

2

I know you can disallow Google Translate on a page by adding a meta tag in:

<meta name="google" value="notranslate">

I don’t know if Chrome hooks into that as well though. Give it a test and see what happens. I think that will work in Chrome 11+

3

I wouldn’t suggest disableing Google Translate altogether. Rather, try sending the language in the HTTP header as well:

header('Content-Language: pt-BR');

Also, Google might not recognize language subcategories. Have you tried just using pt, just to check if it works?

4

It works! :wink:
But… now does not suggest any translation. What if… Tomorrow I make a page that needs translation suggestion, but in the case of pt_BR to en_US?

Do you have any tag to make the suggestion?
Thanks.

5

That is exactly why I recommended against disableing translation. It’s a bit like curing a cold with 240 grains of lead :wink:

Might also be a version problem: Auto translate detect the wrong language. Why is it so? - Toolbar Help

6

Not sure about the 2nd part of the question. I just only remembered how to block the bar completely. :slight_smile:

Did you find this issue to also happen in other browsers with the Google toolbar or just in Chrome?

7

Just in Chrome, but works for my application.
Thanks FFCus and C. Ankerstjerne. :wink: