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How do I translate navigation menus, headers, and footers?

In nearly every Webflow site, the navigation bar (including its dropdown menus) and the footer are Components. Their text is not part of any individual page — so sending a page, even the page where the menu "lives," will not carry the menu's items.

What to do: in Translate's content browser, open the Components group and select the navbar / menu / dropdown / footer components, then send them like any other content. The translation is applied to the component definition, so it takes effect on every page at once.

Two related details:

  • If a specific placement of a component has overridden text (e.g. the same card component with a different title on one page), that override travels with the page that contains it — translate the page too.

  • If menu entries are generated from a CMS collection (common for large "mega menus"), translate that collection in the Collections section.

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