https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected Gravity Support Forums Topic: How to prefill an entry field with 'help' text that clears when selected en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:21:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-178674 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:40:42 +0000 Chris Hajer 178674@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I can't speak for the development team, but I know that feature has been requested in the past and is being considered. When there are third party add-ons available, and other solutions posted, we don't always incorporate the functionality into the core Gravity Forms.</p> <p>Thank you for your opinion.</p> <p>There are two plugins I know of:<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-auto-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-auto-placeholders/</a><br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/</a></p> <p>Additionally, there is this solution we have posted previously:<br /> <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> <p>This user posted something recently:<br /> <a href="http://www.warrenchandler.com/2012/10/11/gravity-forms-three-handy-tips/" rel="nofollow">http://www.warrenchandler.com/2012/10/11/gravity-forms-three-handy-tips/</a></p> <p>Google has some solutions too:<br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=gravity+forms+placeholder" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=gravity+forms+placeholder</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-176705 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:40:24 +0000 mauricenaef 176705@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Chris, not to sound rude or anything, but what is there to consider? The HTML5 Placeholder text should be widely enough supported in modern browsers plus it degrades gracefully in that non supported browsers just don't get the placeholder.</p> <p>In my opinion this should really be done, as there is a HTML5 Form option in the settings it could be optional. Been waiting quite some months for this feature and don't see any progress.</p> <p> Again, this is just my opinion and you guys are doing a great job, just missing this feature or possibility.. thanks</p> <p>p.s. The mentioned Plugin doesn't seem to work with the latest version... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-160176 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:28:03 +0000 Chris Hajer 160176@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It's being considered for a future release of Gravity Forms. Thank you for your interest. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-156449 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:35:01 +0000 grayscale 156449@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Out of curiosity, why is this not included in Gravity? Seems simple enough since it only adds 1 line of code to the input field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-136443 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:33:35 +0000 Chris Hajer 136443@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That functionality is called placeholder text and is a feature of HTML 5, but not currently included in Gravity Forms. You can use this 3rd party plugin to achieve what you want:</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/</a></p> <p>Or you can follow this older tutorial:<br /> <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/how-to-prefill-an-entry-field-with-help-text-that-clears-when-selected#post-132500 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:39:30 +0000 owen-b 132500@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hiya,</p> <p>My form is one box for an email address and the submit button. I would like the email box to be pre filled with text like 'Your email (never shared!)' or something like that, which automatically clears when the user clicks in the field to start typing.</p> <p>Is this do-able in Settings, or are there any user-created plugins that help?</p> <p>Many thanks!<br /> Owen </p>