Internationalization

Element Plus components use English by default. If you want to use other languages, read on to find out how.

Global configuration

Element Plus provides global configuration options.

main.ts
ts
import ElementPlus from 'element-plus'
import zhCn from 'element-plus/es/locale/lang/zh-cn'

app.use(ElementPlus, {
  locale: zhCn,
})

ConfigProvider

Element Plus also provides a Vue component ConfigProvider for globally configuring locale and other settings.

App.vue
vue
<template>
  <el-config-provider :locale="zhCn">
    <app />
  </el-config-provider>
</template>

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ElConfigProvider } from 'element-plus'
import zhCn from 'element-plus/es/locale/lang/zh-cn'
</script>

Date and time localization

We use Day.js library to manage date and time in components like DatePicker. It is important to set a proper locale in Day.js to make internationalization work properly. You have to import Day.js's locale config separately.

ts
import 'dayjs/locale/zh-cn'

CDN Usage

If you are using Element Plus via CDN, you need to do the following. Let's take unpkg as an example:

html
<script src="//unpkg.com/element-plus/dist/locale/zh-cn"></script>
<script>
  app.use(ElementPlus, {
    locale: ElementPlusLocaleZhCn,
  })
</script>

For full documentation, refer to: ConfigProvider

Supported Language List

  • Simplified Chinese (zh-cn)
  • American English (en)
  • Azerbaijani (az)
  • German (de)
  • Portuguese (pt)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Danish (da)
  • French (fr)
  • Norwegian (nb-NO)
  • Traditional Chinese (zh-tw)
  • Italian (it)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • Vietnamese (vi)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Turkish (tr)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br)
  • Farsi (fa)
  • Thai (th)
  • Indonesian (id)
  • Bulgarian (bg)
  • Pashto (pa)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Greek (el)
  • Slovak (sk)
  • Catalunya (ca)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Ukrainian (uk)
  • Turkmen (tk)
  • Tamil (ta)
  • Latvian (lv)
  • Afrikaans (af)
  • Estonian (et)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Arabic (ar)
  • Hebrew (he)
  • Lao (lo)
  • Lithuanian (lt)
  • Mongolian (mn)
  • Kazakh (kk)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Romanian (ro)
  • Kurdish (ku)
  • Kurdish (ckb)
  • Uighur (ug-cn)
  • Khmer (km)
  • Serbian (sr)
  • Basque (eu)
  • Kyrgyz (ky)
  • Armenian (hy-am)
  • Croatian (hr)
  • Esperanto (eo)
  • Bengali (bn)
  • Malay (ms)
  • Madagascar (mg)
  • Swahili (sw)
  • Uzbek (uz-uz)
  • Egyptian Arabic (ar-eg)
  • Burmese (my)
  • Hindi (hi)
  • Norsk (no)
  • Hongkong Chinese (zh-hk)
  • Macau Chinese (zh-mo)
  • Telugu (te)

If you need any other languages, PR is always welcome, you only need to add a language file here.