https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-jumping-and-placeholder-text Gravity Support Forums Topic: Form Jumping? and Placeholder Text en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:45:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-jumping-and-placeholder-text#post-45406 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:07:14 +0000 kyle 45406@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Try removing your custom CSS one selector at a time until the problem stops. Then adjust accordingly.</p> <p>Could you maybe have some conditional fields that are being rendered visible/hidden with JavaScript? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-jumping-and-placeholder-text#post-45405 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:54:48 +0000 Shunyata 45405@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Kevin, thanks for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, I won't have the page up until the site goes live for launch. </p> <p>It seems like its responding to css prompts previous to my css relative position loading, It was worse before I added the following </p> <p>#gform_wrapper_1 .gform_heading {<br /> display: none;<br /> }</p> <p>Now I'm only using the Name and Email fields so I'm wondering if there are some other elements that I should set to display: none;</p> <p>I look forward to an update of Gravity Forms that includes a native way to use Placeholder text!</p> <p>Thx Again </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-jumping-and-placeholder-text#post-45402 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:41:03 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 45402@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We won't be able to tell what's going on with the "jumping" from just seeing your CSS. We would need to see the actual behavior and inspect the page to give you any definitive answer.</p> <p>There isn't currently a way to add "placeholder" text but you could hide the existing field labels with a CSS rule, then you can use this method (using default values) to emulate placeholder text inside the inputs.</p> <p><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/form-jumping-and-placeholder-text#post-45330 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:54:38 +0000 Shunyata 45330@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just signed up for Gravity Forms and love it. </p> <p>Even though I've had some success with css styling, when the page loads something is making the form, all the fields and labels jump before assuming their correct relative position. </p> <p>I'm developing the site on my localhost so I can't give you a link to it, but have posted the CSS at Pastebin (<a href="http://pastebin.com/Ha82XvWN" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/Ha82XvWN</a>) </p> <p>I am also wondering how to implement placeholder text:—<br /> &lt;input type="text" size="20" placeholder="Full name"&gt;</p> <p>It would be great just to ditch the labels and have Name and Email ect. appear in the input field with a placeholder .</p> <p>Please Advise!</p> <p>Thx</p> <p>Shunyata </p>