Google Translate Embed Code

google_translate.html

<div id="google_translate_element"></div>
<script> 
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
  new google.translate.TranslateElement({
    pageLanguage: 'en'
  }, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>
<script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script> 

It does not work for me any more. It worked on my website since 2015 until this week. Has Google stopped supporting it?

Update: It started working again the next day - so just temporary downtime from Google.

Yes, Google stopped supporting it a few years ago. The new Google Translate browser extension is much, much better, easier to use, etc. Certainly I think most if not all non-english speakers are familiar with the extension by now. *Mick*

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Using:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>

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

...works just fine for me as of today (setup on a new website).

Yes, it now works for me too. I meant to write back to say it started working the following day. So there must have simply been a tempory issue in July.

It is working for me (I build sites on a 3rd party platform) but the default menu language is coming up in the geographical local language (in this case Thai).
I tried a Google "expert" who insisted that the menu language is decided by your Chrome language settings, but he was full of crap. I have no Thai settings in my browser, or on my laptop at all. It's not even an alternative language choice in Windows or Office for me.
I insist that it's being decided by location but he disagreed.
To check, I set the following code in my website:

<script type="text/javascript">// </script> <script src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit" type="text/javascript"></script>

.. and it comes up as Thai (as I am in Thailand).
When I was last working in Zambia, it came up in English
To verify, I connected via a VPN to a server in London and, lo and behold, the menu language changed to English! I simultaneously checked the exact same website on my phone (not connected via VPN) and it's still in Thai.
Anyone know how to lock the menu language to English (or another language, come to that)?
Thanks peeps.

sam