Translating the custom text in form.phtml file

Question

I have added some paragraph to form.phtml file and added the translation in the .../locale/nl_NL/Mage_Contacts.csv. But the custom text does not get translated in contact us page when I switch the languages. I have refresh the cache of magento and browser. What step is missing?

Answer 1

You did not show, how you added the paragraph, but this is what it should look like so that it gets translated by Mage_Contacts.csv:

Mage::helper('contacts')->__('here is your paragraph');