https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site Gravity Support Forums Topic: Can one hide the post body field from the form on the front end of a site? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:53:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-12762 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:33:19 +0000 Carl Hancock 12762@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@danielck Because some people still want to use the Post Body field for the main Post Body content and then insert other field values, primarily Post Image content into the body of the post. But with the Content Template you have complete control so you have to tell it to insert the value of that field. What we will probably do is default the Content Template so by default it has the form field variable for the Post Body field pre-populated. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-12746 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:28:06 +0000 danielck 12746@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This is what I don't get with the Post Body Template thing. If I'm using the Template feature, why is the body field visible at all in the first place? Whatever the user inputs in the field gets overridden (in the generated post) by the contents of the template anyway. Is there a way to generate the contents of the post without the need for the body field? Like with a hook or something? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5233 Tue, 04 May 2010 09:25:48 +0000 Alex Cancado 5233@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Great! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5228 Tue, 04 May 2010 04:40:02 +0000 RichardBest 5228@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Alex - This worked perfectly! Awesome, thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5223 Mon, 03 May 2010 22:33:56 +0000 RichardBest 5223@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Superb. Thanks Alex. Will try this out tonight. Richard. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5222 Mon, 03 May 2010 22:21:03 +0000 Alex Cancado 5222@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Richard,<br /> Actually, this can be done with CSS. You need to do the following:</p> <p>1- In your post body field editor, enter a Css Class Name in the advanced tab<br /> (i.e. post_body_hidden)</p> <p>2- Add the following line of code to your theme's style.css<br /> .post_body_hidden{display:none}</p> <p>Let me know if you have issues with it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5196 Mon, 03 May 2010 15:43:19 +0000 RichardBest 5196@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Alex</p> <p>The jQuery technique sounds perfect. I've not built the form yet as I was keen first to know whether this was possible. Is there any chance you could post the jQuery here please and tell me where to put it? I should be able to sort it out.</p> <p>Thanks for your help<br /> Richard </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5182 Mon, 03 May 2010 11:10:34 +0000 Alex Cancado 5182@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Richard,<br /> In order to create a post, GF requires that a form has a post title or a post body field. If your form has the post title field, you can just remove the post body from the form. If post body is your only post field, you will need to keep it. What you can do is hide it with jQuery. If that is acceptable, send me a link to your form and I will give you a code snippet to hide the field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5180 Mon, 03 May 2010 07:12:32 +0000 RichardBest 5180@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks. Good idea. I'm still keen to know whether the GF team can suggest another solution by which I can hide the post body field though... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/can-one-hide-the-post-body-field-from-the-form-on-the-front-end-of-a-site#post-5173 Sun, 02 May 2010 21:59:11 +0000 Chris Hajer 5173@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you don't want to go with the post template, Alex posted recently about prepending some text to the form submission.</p> <p><a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/insert-shortcode-in-post-body#post-5119" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/insert-shortcode-in-post-body#post-5119</a></p> <p>If you can prepend or append the text to the submission, then this would work. If you need your standard text in the middle of the submitted form data, this would not work so simply. </p>