# Add language dropdown to email templates interface

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-language-dropdown-to-email-templates-interface/385140
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email-templates
**Created:** [9 oktober 2025 om 14:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-language-dropdown-to-email-templates-interface/385140 "2025-10-09T14:33:43Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [9 oktober 2025 om 14:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-language-dropdown-to-email-templates-interface/385140/1 "2025-10-09T14:33:43Z")

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You can customize site texts and theme translations without changing your user locale. Both interfaces offer a dropdown to select the language.

 ![Screenshot_20251009_160621_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/4/8/f48c408fe80b19f36e49ed160d4157878c6943e3.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot_20251009_160658_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/e/a/8eae830ec1ea1408c7b07b34a66a83bb358e7aa7.jpeg)

But the interface for editing templates does not offer a way to select a language

 ![Screenshot_20251009_162934_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/3/0/030e0f195ef20bc52ebeef0cff50cdd4a67e5f71.jpeg)

This not only means that you have to change your interface language several times when you want to edit the template in multiple languages, but it also makes it much easier to forget that editing one version is not enough to ensure that all users receive the desired message. I think a dropdown like in the other interfaces could improve that.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [9 oktober 2025 om 16:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-language-dropdown-to-email-templates-interface/385140/2 "2025-10-09T16:23:20Z")

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Sorry, I tried to find a prior request in search but I didn’t find

> [@Quick language selection when editing templates, etc](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-language-selection-when-editing-templates-etc/42590):
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> When editing texts, templates, etc. (example: /admin/customize/email\_templates) you edit the texts in the language you have set your profile to. But on Discourse instances with multiple languages, it’s would be nice to have a quick dropdown to select another language. Even better: have that dropdown for each text (in stead of the whole list).

Maybe this one can be moved to that topic.