Hi everyone,

I got LimeSurvey installed by LimeService and finished my questionnaire now (englisch & german).

Could anyone tell me how I can remove that Dropdown Box that makes you change the language during the questionnaire?

Thx in advance!

Best,

The language switcher is, as far as I know, part of the template. Have a look at your template. Depending on your template this might be in different files. My guess would be the startpage.pstpl.

If you use a standard template, I would suggest you copy the template and change things in the new template. So you can always go back to the standard one, if something goes wrong.

Find and remove the {LANGUAGECHANGER} placeholder. Maybe in survey.pstpl.

tpartner wrote: Find and remove the {LANGUAGECHANGER} placeholder. Maybe in survey.pstpl.

Hi,

thx for the help but all i could find was:

.languagechanger {font-size: 1em;}

that was in the template.css

I tried deleting that but it made no difference...any other ideas?

Thx again,

Of course deleting .languagechanger in the template.css doesn't help. It just deletes the way it is supposed to be styled. What you could do is to use

While still in the source code, the languagechanger shouldn't appear anymore.

Without knowing which template you use, it is basically impossible to tell you where in the template files you can find the language changer.

For the template "default" you can find {LANGUAGECHANGER} in the survey.pstpl. But this can be different for each template.

The placeholder must be there or the language changer would not appear. What template are you using?

You could also use CSS to hide it. Add the following to the end of template.css:
[EDIT] holch beat me to the CSS [/EDIT]

This is an old post but I thought I should just post the answer anyway.
open the current active template e.g templates/default/surveylist.pstpl

look for {LANGUAGECHANGER} in surveylist.pstpl file and remove it.

That's all.

Depending on the template you use, the [LANGUAGESWITCHER] may be either in welcome.pstl or another template file. I prefer it to reside in welcome.pstl, since then it is only shown at the start of the survey, not on every following page.

Hi,

I want to remove the language switcher of the Administrator Login Panel. I am using Limesurvey version2.50.

Kindly help me to remove it.

Thanks

For the Administrator Login Panel you will most probably have to look in the administration template files. Probably the easiest way is to hide it via CSS, if you can find the respective ID or class so you can access it via CSS.

I have tried to find out how to solve this.

Wow, is this simple little page complicated. I don't know why there is so much going on on this page. I guess this has to do with bootstrap. I had and am still having a hard time to find my way around the html code and the css code for what is supposed to be a pretty simple page.

With adding display:none to #s2id_loginlang I managed to hide the drop down. But as the label "language" has no ID nor a unique class, I am not quite sure how to hide this via CSS. Maybe someone else can skip in, who is more up to date with coding or has experience with bootstrap.

Should be found in lime-admin-common.css

holch wrote: But as the label "language" has no ID

answered here

Hej guys,

I am really new with limesurvey and barely understand html and javascript.
I´d also like to hide the languageswitcher for the whole survey (it is not activated, Version 3.16.0+190225) and found this and other forum comments, and the manual page.

Being that new, I just don´t get where to apply it and how exactly. I mostly read about two options.
A) change code in template directly via source code (if that´s even the name, hmm)
insert your .languagechanger {display:none;} suggestion.

I am a student, working with a certain template created by my uni, and don´t have administrative rights to the account. Meaning I cannot change anything in the template directly. Until now I kept it on "inherit everything". In my understanding, that excludes option A.

Does that rule out B as well? Or could I just insert the above in theme options, if I switched "inherit everything" off and put that somewhere in the advanced settings? (I tried out files css at some point and everything went strange). After all, I thought I understood that no source code _{(suppose there´s a slight chance B is also source code , but doesn´t need any java-in.)} is needed thanks to template.css (it kinda proceeds to the funny question is tempate.css some equivalent to the files css or cssframework css in the advanced settings? ..no?!).

This is probably somewhere in the forum already, I´m sorry about this.
It might seem silly but due to never having done anything code-ish and not having full limesurvey access, I feel I´m missing a really basic understanding of how to use orders like the above in lime (especially when it comes to css).

I´d reeally appreciate a signpost. Please let me know if you need further info.

Thanks a million in advance!
Ell

Hi, Ell
You have a lot of ideas. Did you try? Which results?

And you talk about "template.css". So you do not work with version 3.x.
Which one?

Joffm

Hi!
I doo: it says LimeSurvey Version 3.16.0+190225 at the right hand bottom of my account. I wrote template.css because I read it a lot in Forum comments and thought it still existed. That´s quite a good demo of how i often don´t get whether something is just something i don´t understand yet, or simply part of an older limeSurvey version. ^^

Re ideas + results:
Maybe I explained it badly, but for one I cannot change anything in source code of templates themselves, because i don´t have administrative access. I can only access the options at the bar at the top right side of the screen (see tiny picture). That means I haven´t tried option A. (Just read about in in forum.)

Option B ) (which was displayed as in my last post), is something i thought might work without using java or actually changing the original template (which cannot be changed since others at the uni use it too). That is, the .languagechanger order.

I did try to ask my super administrator to make a template copy and turn it off in there, but I´m not sure how well she goes about limesurvey because she suggested to simply x out the second languge under additional languges in general settings - something i cannot do, because the default language is German. But this is also the language I`d like to hide, as my survey will be in English only.

So that left me with wanting to tryout .languagechanger {display:none;} as suggested here by holch and tpartner but I just don´t get where to put slash if i can´t put it anywhere because i don´t have administrative rights.

I did simply try putting it in the Files CSS, but was told about 10 times: Error: Malformed JSON: Field files_css must be either a JSON array or the string "inherit". Found "". If I put it in Files Print CSS, it doesn´t give warnings but also doesn´t remove the switch. Same for putting it in Cssframework Css.
Possible explanations
1. it was never meant to go in the advanced theme settings in the survey,
2. code is wrong or outdated (missing brackets, other signs..),
3. order correct but some setting missing in order for it to work,
4. ???

There´s so much help and input in manual and forum (which is so cool! thanks) but I lack a feel of which order can go in what setting and how/if I´d have to modify forum suggestions for older lime versions. Like when you learn vocabulary but get the grammar all wrong - I´m not asking you to do my grammar work though, if that came out wrong.

Does that make sense? (Sorry, I suck at keeping it short.)

Thanks:)