https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Option to display field descriptions above field en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:06:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field#post-3409 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:16:15 +0000 Carl Hancock 3409@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We do plan on adding this in a future release. We are always looking at ways to make the plugin better and development will never be "done" as there are always things to add and improve. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field#post-3403 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:04 +0000 Anonymous 3403@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@illinoisharley: Thanks for this. It's a short-term workaround though so I do hope to see a solution that allows the user to configure in the admin console.</p> <p>@Kevin Flahaut: The jQuery solution is also awesome, but longer term an admin console solution would be appreciated.</p> <p>That said, is there not a way we can optionally have meaningful names for ids, i.e. field_my_options vs. field_2_5? The latter is really hard to maintain and thus fragile. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field#post-3385 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:16:05 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 3385@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here's an alternate method that you can try. It uses jQuery to reposition the description.</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt; $(document).ready(function() { $(&#39;li#field_xx_yy .gfield_description&#39;).insertAfter($(&#39;li#field_xx_yy .gfield_label&#39;)); }); &lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> <p>You'll want to add this to your page template or your header.php file. If you're already calling the jQuery library, you can omit that initial script reference. You'll just need to replace the "#field_xx_yy" with your actual field ID, something like "#field_15_4".</p> <p>You can repeat that for each description you would like to relocate. The benefit to doing it this is that there is less CSS manipulation (maybe a few margin/padding tweaks) and that it displays inline so will adjust to fit varying lengths of text rather than having to rely on specifying heights in the CSS.</p> <p><a href="http://grab.by/2qK4" rel="nofollow">view a screenshot</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field#post-3381 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:53:40 +0000 Chris Hajer 3381@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You could use CSS to reposition the description, as described by Kevin here:<br /> <a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-create-single-checkbox-that-is-required-for-confirming-tc-for-example#post-2207" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-create-single-checkbox-that-is-required-for-confirming-tc-for-example#post-2207</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/option-to-display-field-descriptions-above-field#post-3379 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:35:49 +0000 Anonymous 3379@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm wondering if you could add an option to display the description about the field, both on a single field and globally for a form?</p> <p>Where I need right now is for a large number of checkboxes; the description is "below the fold" and I fear people will never see it. </p>