Title: get active language Last modified: October 16, 2020 --- # get active language * Resolved [esanchez3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esanchez3/) * (@esanchez3) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-active-language/) * Hi, * Is there any way to get the active language in php? * I need to switch the wordpress language along the plugin to translate a plugin:: after attribute text. * The get_locale() function always returns the site default language. * Thanks. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Plugin Author [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/) * (@edo888) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-active-language/#post-13551424) * Hi, * Please check [How to detect current selected language?](https://docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1349939-how-to-detect-current-selected-language) * You can check for googtrans cookie to detect the language, but when you switch the language it will not execute PHP, as the translations happen on the fly. * If you are trying to achieve something, please describe it here, may be there is a better way other than changing the locale, which does not seem right to me. * You can also check our paid version: [https://gtranslate.io/#pricing](https://gtranslate.io/#pricing) which has more features. * Thanks! 🙂 * Thread Starter [esanchez3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esanchez3/) * (@esanchez3) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-active-language/#post-13556019) * Hi, * Thanks for your answer. * We are using the GPDR Cookie Consent plugin, which inserts a text using a data- attribute value located in a ::after element. So we are trying to translate it by setting the active language as the user language. * Plugin Author [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/) * (@edo888) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-active-language/#post-13558459) * Hi, * If you are using CSS and you need to write language specific rule you can use attribute selector. We are setting lang attribute on html tag like this: * HTML: `` * CSS can be like this: `html[lang="es"] .etc {...}` * Hope this helps. * Thanks! 🙂 - This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/). Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘get active language’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/google-language-translator/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3007649) * [Translate WordPress - Google Language Translator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-language-translator/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-language-translator/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-language-translator/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-language-translator/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-language-translator/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-language-translator/reviews/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/) * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-active-language/#post-13558459) * Status: resolved