Placeholder Settings

In the Placeholders section, you choose which placeholder types Crowdin recognizes in your project. The Editor highlights the recognized placeholders in source strings, and the Placeholders mismatch QA check compares them between the source string and the translation. Clearing the types your project doesn’t use keeps text that matches only their syntax from being highlighted or reported as a mismatch.

Configure Placeholders

By default, Crowdin recognizes every placeholder type in the list. To choose the placeholder types for your project, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to Settings > Placeholders.
2. Select the checkboxes of the placeholder types you want Crowdin to recognize, and clear the ones your project doesn’t use.
3. Click Save.

Saving re-runs the Placeholders mismatch check for the project’s existing translations in the background, so the reported issues match the updated list. On large projects, this can take a while.

Each placeholder type comes with examples of its syntax and a short description of where it’s used. To find a type, search by its name, description, or example in the field above the list. To narrow the list down, select Enabled, Disabled, or Unsaved changes in the status filter next to the search field. The checkbox in the table header selects or clears all the types currently shown.

The Unified placeholder mismatch check runs regardless of the types selected in this section.