Title: Hide active language Last modified: March 20, 2020 --- # Hide active language * Resolved [thaflo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaflo/) * (@thaflo) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/) * Dear team, * I would like to realize a language switcher like the one on the top right of the site this post links to. * I do not want to have dropdown menu, as I have only 2 languages to switch between. If DE is active, IT should be shown, and if IT is active, DE should be shown. My current status is visible on: [https://www.thaler-online.com/ig-new/](https://www.thaler-online.com/ig-new/) How could I achieve this? Thanks for any help. * Florian * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhide-active-language%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Dragos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragosvrejiu/) * (@dragosvrejiu) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12579159) * Hello Florian, * Thank you for getting in touch! * We have a step by step documentation on how to achieve this:[https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/](https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/) * Please let me know if you come across any issues. * With the best regards, * Thread Starter [thaflo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaflo/) * (@thaflo) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12581367) * Thank you so much, I did the solution without the plugin and it worked flawlessy. Have a nice day! Florian * [Dragos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dragosvrejiu/) * (@dragosvrejiu) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12582466) * Hello Florian, * Thank you for letting me know! * Good luck with your project. * With the best regards, * [rhpg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhpg/) * (@rhpg) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12597636) * Dear Dragos or colleague, * Just like Florian, I want to hide the active language flag in the menu of my 2 languages website (nl_NL and en_US). So I tried as explained on [https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/](https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/). * CSS Classes is checked, but I don’t know how to correctly edit my language menu items, adding a custom class. After adding the language switcher items to the menu, these CSS fields automatically contain: “trp-language-switcher-container”. I tried adding tp_nl and tp_en (like: “trp-language-switcher-container-tp-en”) but this doesn’t work. * => How/where should I add tp_en and tp_nl in order to make this work? * FYI: under Extra CSS I added: .translatepress-en_US .tp_en, .translatepress- nl_NL .tp_nl { display: none; } * Thank you so much for your help, I’m really struggling with this * Thread Starter [thaflo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaflo/) * (@thaflo) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12598218) * Hello rhpg! In the menus “CSS Classes” you have to insert like this: “trp-language- switcher-container tp_it” Adding means here to add the css class, not to attach something to the first class. So try “trp-language-switcher-container tp-en” instead of “trp-language-switcher-container-tp-en” * Greetings, Florian * [rhpg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhpg/) * (@rhpg) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12606615) * Dear Florian, Dragos or colleague, * I added tp-en resp. tp-nl as suggested in CSS Class field of the language switcher menu items, and added the following code in the Extra CSS: * .translatepress-en_US .tp_en, .translatepress-nl_NL .tp_nl { display: none; } * However, both flags remain visible. Something strange is happening in the CSS Class fields in the language switcher menu items: * If I enter: trp-language-switcher-container tp_nl and close and re-open this field, it then says: trp-language-switcher-container tp_nl trp-language-switcher- container * If I close and re-open again it says: trp-language-switcher-container tp_nl trp-language-switcher-container trp-language-switcher-container” * So for some reason it keeps on adding “trp-language-switcher-container”. For testing purposes, I cleared these CSS Class fields in the menu and then only entered “tp-en”. If I close and re-open the field, it then says: “tp-en trp-language- switcher-container” * I also had my website hosting provider look into this issue. He also followed the steps on [https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/](https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/show-opposite-language-in-language-switcher/) but with the same outcome. They suspect that the code may be outdated. * Can you please look into what the problem is? Or better: the solution!? * Many thanks. * Kind regards, Rob - This reply was modified 6 years ago by [rhpg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhpg/). * Thread Starter [thaflo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaflo/) * (@thaflo) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12608170) * Hi Rob, * yes, I have additional CSS classes in my CSS field, too. but nevertheless, it works here. Maybe we have different preferences in Plugins->TranslatePress? This are mine: [https://i.imgur.com/X35Mxxp.png](https://i.imgur.com/X35Mxxp.png) * I added * ``` .translatepress-it_IT .tp_it, .translatepress-de_DE .tp_de { display: none; } ``` * in the Design/Customizer/CSS field * Florian * [rhpg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhpg/) * (@rhpg) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12610365) * Thank you FLorian for sharing your thoughts and screenshot. My preference settings were the same, except that I had flags instead of short names. Changing according to your settings didn’t help unfortunately. Also, our Extra CSS code is the same. * Maybe there’s something wrong in my menu settings. Here I have 2 Language Switcher elements with (initially) the following settings: * 1: Label: Dutch CSS Class: trp-language-switcher-container tp_nl * 2: Label: English CSS Class: trp-language-switcher-container tp_en * (this is what I enter, as explained the system ads to these CSS Class codes itself) * Are these Menu elements and CSS Class entries the same as yours? * Many thank for your help! * Kind regards, Rob Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Hide active language’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/translatepress-multilingual/assets/icon.svg?rev=3166541) * [Translate Multilingual sites - TranslatePress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/translatepress-multilingual/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/translatepress-multilingual/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/translatepress-multilingual/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/translatepress-multilingual/reviews/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [rhpg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhpg/) * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-active-language/#post-12610365) * Status: resolved