https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/default-value-until-someone-enters-something Gravity Support Forums Topic: default value until someone enters something? en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/default-value-until-someone-enters-something#post-73604 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:45:01 +0000 Clifford 73604@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for that link. It confirms "While that's not a feature in the current version of Gravity Forms...", which is the info I was looking for.</p> <p>However, these jQuery solutions require a default value, which DOES NOT get erased if they skip this field; instead, it submits the form with the default value.</p> <p>I'm looking for this solution but where there's just helper text in there, not literally a "default value". So if they were to skip this field, I'd want the form to either 1) not validate if this field is required or 2) submit the form with a blank in this field if this field isn't required.<br /> I hope that makes sense. Anyways, GF, you have my vote for including this by default or providing a snippet.</p> <p>Thanks. Following this topic... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/default-value-until-someone-enters-something#post-71486 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:31:34 +0000 graphical_force 71486@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Rob. I'll take a look at it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/default-value-until-someone-enters-something#post-71485 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:18:08 +0000 Rob Harrell 71485@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I've implemented <a href="http://www.wduffy.co.uk/jLabel/" rel="nofollow">this</a> for a client that worked great, its semantic and has good fall-back support and validation stays intact.</p> <p>There is also a variant way to do this here: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/default-value-until-someone-enters-something#post-71484 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:17:24 +0000 graphical_force 71484@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hello, I am using an email field and I would like to have the text "Enter your email address" within the field. I can do this using a default value but I want it to disappear when someone starts to enter their email address. Right now, it keeps the text in it even while they start typing.</p> <p>Any way to do this?</p> <p>Thanks! </p>