"Please enter an email address." How to change

It’s your browser, that is the standard HTML5 validation. Each browser show it in the correct language.

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Hi,

I have been struggling with this too. This seems to be the only thing that cannot be translated via the plugin translation functions, so why use HTML5 validation as an excuse not to make it translatable?

There are many people (myself for one) that chooses to use browsers with a different language than their spoken language, but still wants websites that uses their spoken language translated all the way. It just doesn′t look goood that that single sentence is the only thing that is not translated.

Thanks

HTML5 validation is a new standard and that sentence cannot be translated. Otherwise we should roll back to old standard with javascript validation. If you really need it, you can copy the form code from the subscription form pane, change the field type name “ne” to “text” in place of “email” and the browser will stop to validate email addresses.

Just a note: which is the return in number of subscriptions to do all that? What I mean is: how many subscribers are we loosing for that kind of validation?

Usually people write down their own address correctly and when they do a typo a simple note is enough to make them correct the email address. More a localized message is better that a non localized message, even is they are reading a foreign language blog. Just my opinion, anyway!

Hi Stefano,

Thanks for your response. My point was just consistency. It would be better to be able to translate every single bit of the plugin into the language you want to use. Any particular reason you are not using po/mo files for translation?

We are working to make it po/mo ready, but that is HTML5 validation and removing it means to add to your blog validation javascript which must be compatible with your theme, and display error message with a style which must not interfere with your theme or be scrambled by your theme styles.