Google Translate set default language

Question

Maybe this has an obvious solution that I'm overlooking, but I can't seem to find the correct parameter to put in to make this happen. Using the Google Translate widget on a site, I need to set the default language that the user sees when entering the site, even though the site is english.

function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); }

I've tried adding: defaultLanguage: 'fr' and tried: targetLanguage: 'fr'

I did find some nice jQuery solutions, but didn't want to bypass this if it was an easy fix.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This should point you in the right direction:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/reference.html