How to set the language of the consent banner?

The standard template text for the cookie consent banner is currently available in 46 different languages. All languages are supported by Cookiebot and you can easily add any additional languages beyond these existing templates.

How to add languages?

You can create an unlimited number of different language versions of the Consent Dialog via "Settings" → "Content" tab in your Cookiebot Manager. Add a new language by clicking the button to the left of the language tab.

The default language variant (selected in the corresponding dropdown list as illustrated above) will be shown to all users unless you configure one of the following options:

If you check "Auto-detect user language" in the Cookiebot Manager, Cookiebot will automatically detect the individual user's preferred browser language and show the dialog in this language if you have created a matching language variant. If not, Cookiebot will show the default language to the user.

Examples:

Situation: You added English as a banner language.
The user's browser language is set to English.
Upon visiting the website, the user will be presented with the English banner.
Situation: You added English as the default banner language, but have not added French as a banner language.
The user's browsers language is set to French.
Upon visiting the website, the user will be presented with the (default) English banner.
Situation: You have added English as the default banner language, but have also added French as a banner language.
The user's browser language is set to French.
Upon visiting the website, the user will be presented with the French banner.

How to manually assign the language?

You can display the consent dialog in a specific language to all visitors by adding the attribute data-culture to the Cookiebot script tag embedded in your website, by setting the value to the two-letter ISO language-code that appears in the tab-title of the language variant you have created.
This practice is appropriate in a scenario where you want to ensure that the banner is displayed in a specific language, instead of letting the browser's language preference settings determine this.
Each language version of your website should have a matching data-culture attribute on the Cookiebot script tag.

Using this attribute overrides both the default language and auto-detect.

Example: Always displaying the banner in Spanish:

<script
  id="Cookiebot"
  data-culture="es"
  type="text/javascript"
  src="https://consent.cookiebot.com/uc.js"
  data-cbid="12345678-90ab-cdef-1234-567890abcdef"
  data-blockingmode="auto"
></script>

You can use the same method with the Cookie Declaration script, eg.:

<script
  id="CookieDeclaration"
  data-culture="es"
  type="text/javascript"
  src="https://consent.cookiebot.com/12345678-90ab-cdef-1234-567890abcdef/cd.js"
  async
></script>

It is also possible to lock the language per subdirectory, subdomain or domain extension. For example domain.com/es, es.domain.com or domain.es.

For detailed instructions on how to set this up, please see: Changing the link of the banner based on the URL.

If you have any questions regarding your banner language settings or are otherwise in need of assistance; feel free to reach out to our support team via the support form.

Select your interface:

How to add languages?

How to manually assign the language?

How to determine the appropriate language from the URL?

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