https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/possible-to-change-name-and-id-attributes-of-input-fields Gravity Support Forums Topic: Possible to change name and id attributes of input fields?? en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:20:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/possible-to-change-name-and-id-attributes-of-input-fields#post-285042 Wed, 29 May 2013 00:10:56 +0000 Etic 285042@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have an issue like this one and I must find a way; my form is generating this name for a checkbox:</p> <pre><code>&lt;input name=&quot;input_2.1&quot; type=&quot;checkbox&quot; ...&quot; id=&quot;choice_2_1&quot; ...&gt;</code></pre> <p>I understand we cannot change the name of the input, but the dot ( . ) in the name is causing some issue with a third party framework: "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: input[name=input_2.1]"</p> <p>I have tested and there is no error when using the input field name without the dot.<br /> Is there any workaround, like always naming without using the dot? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/possible-to-change-name-and-id-attributes-of-input-fields#post-77148 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:05:54 +0000 Chris Hajer 77148@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There is no built in way to change the name and ID attributes, and I am unsure if Gravity Forms would continue to work if you did change them.</p> <p>For changing the form action, you can use the gform_form_tag filter <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_form_tag" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_form_tag</a></p> <p>This is a good article about sending data to 3rd party services using the gform_after_submission hook: <a href="http://www.0to5blog.com/creative/gravity-forms-submitting-forms-to-3rd-party-applications/" rel="nofollow">http://www.0to5blog.com/creative/gravity-forms-submitting-forms-to-3rd-party-applications/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/possible-to-change-name-and-id-attributes-of-input-fields#post-77136 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:00:53 +0000 bemarketing 77136@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>(I already read the topic from 2010 by the way, but I wasn't sure if there were any updates)..</p> <p>I'm trying to use Gravity Forms to display my form correctly with validation and everything, however, I need to change the name and id attributes in order to integrate it with Bullhorn Staffing's API correctly.. so I was wondering if there was any way to do this.. </p> <p>Also, all my PHP code for actually handling the form is in the template, so I'm assuming there shouldn't be any issues with the form action being the same page, correct? (If not, is there any way to change the action as well?) </p>