https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid Gravity Support Forums Topic: address fields are stupid en-US Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:28:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40198 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:56:16 +0000 John Murray 40198@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@techastrologer Some of what you say is confusing is caused by the styling of your theme. Check your theme's CSS for input and textarea. It's adding 10px of blank spacing between the input area and the label, making the label appear closer to the next field rather than the field to which it applies. That's not a GF issue but rather an issue of integrating with your theme. If a label is positioned close to the field to which it applies and there is reasonable separation between fields, I don't think it matters whether the label is above or below the input area. I think you'd find people that like their labels in either spot. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40196 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:18:59 +0000 techastrologer 40196@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there a way to position the field labels above, or beside, their corresponding input fields?<br /> Or at least get them closer? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40195 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:16:41 +0000 techastrologer 40195@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>oh- the labels are below the fields? that's confusing.<br /> Besides astrology- I have a Masters in Information Science and have worked in usability testing for many years. This is a clearly confusing layout. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40166 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:01:20 +0000 Rob Harrell 40166@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Looks like there is a field for the address line, then the second address line is hidden, then there is a field for city, then the drop down for state and then the input for ZIP.</p> <p><a href="http://grab.by/bbH5" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/bbH5</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40163 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:27:56 +0000 techastrologer 40163@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p><a href="http://miamiastrology.com/purchase-natal-astrology-gift-certificate/" rel="nofollow">http://miamiastrology.com/purchase-natal-astrology-gift-certificate/</a></p> <p>Click the UPS option to show address fields. The City text field is not displaying. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40153 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:50:43 +0000 Chris Hajer 40153@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you post a link to your form please so we can see exactly to what you're referring? Thank you </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-40130 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:57:45 +0000 techastrologer 40130@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The address fields are kind of wonky. Normally one would find a<br /> Street Address (e.g. 123 Main Street) and then<br /> Address 2 (Apartment 4G).</p> <p>I am having another issue where the City field is not displaying. Everything else works, and the "City" label displays, but the text field for it won't display. State displays. ZIP displays. But not city. </p> <p>Any ideas? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-36807 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:27:44 +0000 jezweb 36807@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>can we add a standard option for having addresses in australian format so that we don't need to add the code in manually each time?</p> <p>Custom Address Format (gform_address_types)</p> <p>Blog post from Taylor that explains how to use Australian address format.<br /> <a href="http://www.jezweb.com.au/2011/07/26/add-an-australian-address-format-for-wordpress%E2%80%99s-gravity-forms/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jezweb.com.au/2011/07/26/add-an-australian-address-format-for-wordpress%E2%80%99s-gravity-forms/</a></p> <p>Place the below code snippet in your themes functions.php file.</p> <pre><code>[php] // Gravity Forms Custom Address Hook (Australia) add_filter(&quot;gform_address_types&quot;, &quot;australian_address&quot;, 10, 2); function australian_address($address_types, $form_id){ $address_types[&quot;australia&quot;] = array( &quot;label&quot; =&gt; &quot;Australia&quot;, &quot;country&quot; =&gt; &quot;Australia&quot;, &quot;zip_label&quot; =&gt; &quot;Post Code&quot;, &quot;state_label&quot; =&gt; &quot;State&quot;, &quot;states&quot; =&gt; array(&quot;&quot;, &quot;Australian Capital Territory&quot;, &quot;New South Wales&quot;, &quot;Northern Territory&quot;, &quot;Queensland&quot;,&quot;South Australia&quot;, &quot;Tasmania&quot;, &quot;Victoria&quot;, &quot;Western Australia&quot;) ); return $address_types; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-34419 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:05:44 +0000 TheWizardGuy 34419@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>...but when you make the block required, the only required part is the first address field--the rest of the fields are optional (I think, from my very quick play with it the other day).</p> <p>What if I want everything except the Address2 to be required and Address2 to be optional (or have I missed something here?) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/address-fields-are-stupid#post-29133 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:43:51 +0000 Carl Hancock 29133@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm not sure where the confusion is coming into play. The Address Field is a standardized field that practically all form builders utilize. This includes Wufoo, Formstack, Mach Forms, etc. as well as most web sites that incorporate forms for applications, etc. where Address information is captured. </p> <p>Here is a screenshot of what type of data would go in each field: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZoziW.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ZoziW.png</a></p> <p>The Street Address field is where you put both your house number and street. Unit number too if there is one and the Street Address 2 line has been disabled. For example 123 Main Street. Or 4321 Main Avenue. </p> <p>Why would you need a whole field for that? Well because it could be long. Some street names are long, the street I live on for instance consists of 3 words along with my house number. </p> <p>Bear in mind that Gravity Forms is designed as a general form tool. We have customers all over the world. And what may be the norm for you in Australia is not necessarily how things are done here in the United States, or Canada, the UK, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Central and South America for that matter. </p>