Can I disable chrome's auto translate function for visitors to a given page on my site?

Posted by Drew Noakes on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Drew Noakes
Published on 2011-08-23T14:02:53Z Indexed on 2012/10/06 3:40 UTC
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I know how to disable this feature for pages that I visit, but what I'm looking for is a way to tell other user's Chrome browsers not to offer translation a particular page on my site.

Is there some kind of meta tag I can use? Alternatively, can I indicate that a particular element on the page should not be translated?

Reason: The controls which slide down from the top of the page cause my page to resize, which changes the content, which makes the control slide up, which resizes the page, which changes the content, which causes the controls to slide back in. Rinse and repeat. The page dances.

The page itself is a map, and the content it wants to translate are all proper names and shouldn't be translated anyway. If alternate names exist in other languages, I provide them myself. Generally I'm against taking away features from the browser that users might like, but in this case it really makes sense. So please don't answer saying that I shouldn't be doing this. I've weighed up the options.

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