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title: Adding a Language Selector Page Element
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description: The language selector lets your site visitors choose their preferred language when viewing a site.
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# Adding a Language Selector Page Element

The language selector lets your site visitors choose their preferred language when viewing a site.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td>

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              <p>Available for purchase in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>,
                and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available (with limitations) in:
                <strong>Developer</strong> Edition
              </p>
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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d189597e74">User Permissions
              Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e74 ">To add and manage language options:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e74 ">
              <p><samp class="parmname">Site.com Publisher User</samp> field enabled on the
                user detail page</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Site administrator or designer role
                assigned at the site level</p>
            </td>

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After you add languages to your site, you need to let site visitors select their preferred language from the list of languages you defined in the Languages view.

![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_tip.png)

Tip To save time, add the language selector to your site's page templates.

When the page is open:

1. Drag a **Language Selector** from the Page Elements pane onto the page.
    
    Site visitors will see a Change Site Language drop-down list when they visit the page.
2. Set properties for the language selector:
    
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                <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d189597e145">Property</th>
                <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d189597e148">Description</th>
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                <td data-label="Property" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e145 ">
                  <samp class="parmname">Do Not Translate</samp>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e148 ">Select this checkbox if you want the text in the Label
                  field to remain the same for all languages.</td>

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                <td data-label="Property" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e145 ">
                  <samp class="parmname">Label</samp>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e148 ">
                  <p>The label that appears beside the Language Selector page
                    element when it's added to a page. “Change Site
                    Language” is the default text.</p>
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">The text is
                    translatable, so you can either choose a language in the
                    Site.com Studio language selector and update the text
                    for each language, or export all site content for
                    translation.</p>
                </td>

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                <td data-label="Property" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e145 ">
                  <samp class="parmname">Home Page URL</samp>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d189597e148 ">Redirects site visitors to a different page when they
                  choose a language. The URL is the same for all
                  languages.</td>

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            </tbody>
          </table>

#### See Also

- [Language-Aware Properties](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_languages_prop.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Several properties in the Properties pane are language aware, meaning they can store different values for each language.")