https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields Gravity Support Forums Topic: Pre-populating fields en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:38:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-161828 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:22:08 +0000 Chris Hajer 161828@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you Phil. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-160200 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:53:18 +0000 Phil 160200@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here's a <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/website-field-not-validating-without-http#post-156934" rel="nofollow">potential workaround</a>. In using this approach, you do not pre-populate the website field, but if the user omits a protocol (http://, https://, ftp:// etc.), this code will prepend the value with http:// before Gravity Forms validates the website field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-13187 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:30:31 +0000 Carl Hancock 13187@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@c9labs I'm not sure what this is in reference to. Gravity Forms doesn't have any onfocus Javascript functionality built in. There is no javascript related to text fields. If you have fields where text is appearing and when you click out it does not return then this is either a customization you have implemented or some other code (theme or plugin) that is causing this behavior. </p> <p>If this regarding how to do onfocus pre-population with values that clear when you click on the field... this is a customization. You can read how to do this here:</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/pre-populating-fields#post-13158 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:33:58 +0000 c9labs 13158@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you click on a text field it disappears. However, when you click out it does not return.<br /> How do we configure this? Couldn't the same concept work for the http:// aspect that it prepopulates and then disappears once it is clicked on?</p> <p>How do we adjust the javascript for this or settings? Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-4194 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:45:47 +0000 Carl Hancock 4194@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It should be empty. We will look into this and see what is going on. Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-4186 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:39:09 +0000 agelfand 4186@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am having a problem with the website data type, which I am using to populate custom fields in a post being generated by the form. </p> <p>If the user does not enter anything into the field, the pre-populated "http://" is still passed into the custom field to which I've assigned it. The point is for the custom field to be blank if the user does not have a website address to enter. So even if you don't want to call it a bug, it's still not working the way one should expect. If there's a website data field, and it doesn't get filled in, then the value should be empty. So please fix this feature in your next release. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-729 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:28:38 +0000 takemura 729@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yeah, perhaps not a bug per se, but ill thought out in my opinion </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-723 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:48:04 +0000 WPCoder 723@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sorry to jump in here, just offering my thoughts since I'm experiencing a similar situation.</p> <p>I don't really see this issue as a bug, rather as a feature that hasn't been implemented into a plugin that is still in its infancy. Each form field type - name, e-mail, website, et al - validates correctly. <em>However</em>, there still needs to be some sort of validation for the standard text field, since the entry passes through submission if the default value or pre-populated value is still there. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-720 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:12:11 +0000 takemura 720@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Carl, you are allowing us to pre-populate field data AND make it a required field but it passes the validation process without the end user filling in the field. How can that not be a bug? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-populating-fields#post-718 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:20:20 +0000 Carl Hancock 718@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The Website field validates correctly because that is what it was designed to do. Otherwise we wouldn't have added a Website field and people could have relied on a standard text input. But it required specialized validation, so that is why it is an advanced field.</p> <p>I understand how you want to use the field, and understand your frustration but as you know it simply doesn't work that way right now. Unfortunately we can't rush out a change without thinking it through, implementing it the right way and making it part of our product development life cycle.</p> <p>We do plan on enhancing the custom field capabilities so it is configurable and allows you to use drop downs, checkboxes, radio buttons, textareas, etc. I will be sure to include a website address as an option when we do this.</p> <p>It will not be in the 1.2 release as development on that is complete and it is in the beta testing stage, but we plan on implementing it in the release after that. </p>