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Problem:
You need a simple language switcher with your own styling, but WPML is loading 90 default styles that you have to override.
Solution:
If you're implementing a custom language switcher and need to prevent WPML's default styles from loading, you can modify the code in your site. Specifically, you can edit the

styleLanguageSwitcher

function in the file

/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/block-editor/Loader.php

. Here's how you can adjust the function:

private function styleLanguageSwitcher() {<br />    if ( in_array( self::BLOCK_LANGUAGE_SWITCHER, $this->cssLoaded, true ) ) {<br />        return \'\';<br />    }<br /><br />    this->cssLoaded[] = self::BLOCK_LANGUAGE_SWITCHER;<br />    $css = file_get_contents(<br />        WPML_PLUGIN_PATH . \'/dist/css/blocks/language-switcher.css\'<br />    );<br /><br />    return $css ?: \'\';<br />}<br />

Add the following code within this method to check if the constant

ICL_DONT_LOAD_LANGUAGE_SELECTOR_CSS

is defined, and if so, return nothing, effectively stopping the CSS from loading:

if (defined('ICL_DONT_LOAD_LANGUAGE_SELECTOR_CSS')) {<br />    return \'\';<br />}

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