Change “Press to select” text on select elements

Hi @alecss,

You should be able to translate those text using translation plugins such as LocoTranslate. I’d recommend checking out our tutorial: https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-translate-wpforms-into-a-different-language/. That should hopefully share all of the details you’d need to get up and running with a new language in your forms.

I hope this helps!

Hi, thank you for your response. I don’t need to translate my forms in another language. They are already well translated in Italian. I have need only to translate that short sentence that I have show in my screenshot: “Press to select” in select’s options field.

I’m already using Polylang and I don’t want to install another plugin for languages.

Maybe, I can traslate it with custom string translation offered by polylang functions. Do you have some idea?

Thanks

The problem is that “Press to select” is the value of an html attribute, to be precise the “data-select-text” attribute. And I have no idea how to target that attribute to translate it.

I have already tried to use pll_register_string function (Polylang), but without success.

I have tried Loco Translate and I have solved this problem. But if I do not want to use Loco Translate, how can I do?

Thanks

Hello @alecss,

Please try adding this code on your site:

// Translate Strings
add_filter( 'gettext', 'translate_wpforms_strings', 20, 3 );

function translate_wpforms_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    switch ( $translated_text ) {
        case 'Press to select.' :
            $translated_text = __( 'Your Press to select translation.', 'wpforms-lite' );
            break;
    }
    
    return $translated_text;
}

In case it helps, here’s our tutorial with the most common ways to add custom code like this.

For the most beginner-friendly option in that tutorial, I’d recommend using the Code Snippets plugin.

I hope this helps!

Hi @alecss,

We haven’t heard back from you in about a week, so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread for now. But if you’d like us to assist further, please feel welcome to continue the conversation.

Thanks!