Our website is entirely in English. However, I have noticed that the form alerts, for example, mandatory field warnings appear in German. Is this location dependant? I want it to be in English regardless, as the website is only in English. Or are they baked in in German? If so where can I edit them?
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The browser’s default form validation messages would be determined by the browser.
Check your site’s locale setting to make sure it’s not “de”, otherwise it would be your browser’s or operating system’s internal settings that’s causing German to display.
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To ensure your form alerts are in English, use the setCustomValidity method in JavaScript to set custom validation messages. For example, add this to your input fields:
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Alternatively, check your CMS or platform settings to set the default language for form alerts. This should resolve the issue of alerts appearing in German.