https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-poulated-fields-and-the-required-option Gravity Support Forums Topic: Pre-poulated fields and the "required" option en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:43:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-poulated-fields-and-the-required-option#post-66851 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:21:04 +0000 David Peralty 66851@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So for input fields, I also make sure to create a validation check against what I set as the default value so that the default isn't acceptable. </p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_validation" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_validation</a></p> <p>For other field types, like radio buttons, this can be hard because sometimes, you will set a default, and for 99% of the people, that will be the correct response, and you wouldn't want to filter/validate against that pre-populated value or have them change it, only to change it back... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pre-poulated-fields-and-the-required-option#post-66843 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:04:02 +0000 Sven Knoch 66843@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It seems to me, that it sets the "required" condition as met if a radio button is preselected or a choice field is pre-populated. Is that so ? If so, is it possible to set "required" to "not met" in case the value (for example a text like "insert your text here") is not altered by the user ? </p>