Forcing language selection in your storefront

If you have a multilingual catalog, Ecwid automatically detects the preferred language of your customers’ browsers and shows your store in that language.

In some cases, you might want to add your store in a specific language to a webpage, regardless of the browser language detection. You can force a language by following these steps:

1. Enable the necessary language in your store and translate your catalog into it.
2. Add the "lang" variable to all inclusions of the "script.js" file in Ecwid widgets that you have in the source code of your web page:
   
   

   <script type="text/javascript" src="https://app.ecwid.com/script.js? YOUR_STORE_ID&lang=LOCALE_CODE" charset="utf-8"> </script>

   Instead of LOCALE_CODE you should put the two-letter code of the language that you want to use on this page — for example, en for English, es for Spanish, fr for French, de for German, etc (also, make sure that instead of YOUR_STORE_ID there is your actual Store ID.)

Example: You’ve enabled French as an additional language, added your catalog translations into French and wish to show your whole store in French to everyone in a certain site page. In this case, your Ecwid widget in that webpage source code must contain the lang=fr variable:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://app.ecwid.com/script.js?1003&lang=fr" charset="utf-8"> </script>

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