https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4 Gravity Support Forums Topic: Validation Field - 1.4.beta 4 en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:51:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-37496 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:42:36 +0000 drollwit 37496@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Kept seeing the same thing in my forms and it took me a while to figure this out ... nasty side effect of enabling the spam honeypot and should be either documented better or fixed. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-10694 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:13:28 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 10694@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@martythornley, thanks for posting this over here as well. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-10692 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:08:35 +0000 martythornley 10692@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Found the answer to this and posted it here...</p> <p><a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-shows-ramdom-field?replies=3#post-10691" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-shows-ramdom-field?replies=3#post-10691</a></p> <p>Seems to happen with conditional fields. Whatever tells the conditional fields to display also adds inline style to the honeypot line and forces that to display. Should be a simple fix though. (see link) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8836 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:14:22 +0000 begatt 8836@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Carl - it isn't there anymore. I turned off the spam honeypot and so it works now the way I want it.</p> <p>But, I made a copy of the form if you want to see it. The random field appears after question 11.</p> <p><a href="http://cochristianhe.org/dads/confidence-survey-copy-1/" rel="nofollow">http://cochristianhe.org/dads/confidence-survey-copy-1/</a></p> <p>Sorry for the confusion. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8724 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:05:35 +0000 Carl Hancock 8724@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I don't see it. I went through the entire 20 question quiz (didn't submit) and did not see the spam honeypot field. What browser, browser version and operating system are you using? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8692 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:50:35 +0000 begatt 8692@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Carl. It works, however, it is visible and I was outputting GF CSS...? So, I don't know if the CSS is correct for hiding the field.</p> <p>I was able to turn it off and my form works fine. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8671 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:49:53 +0000 Carl Hancock 8671@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The Spam Honeypot is a hidden field and is a technique to help combat spam bots. It's hidden with CSS. Is it not being hidden when the form is displayed?</p> <p>It isn't intended to be edited, and the label is random and uses something common like "Name" or "Comment" to attract spam bots to fill it out. If there is a value in that field then the form submission is considered spam. But average users should not see it as it is hidden with CSS and if by chance they do see it there is a message asking them not to fill it out.</p> <p>It is a hidden field that requires a blank value. It was a requested feature by users who prefer spam honeypot's to captcha to help prevent spam. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8662 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:57:24 +0000 Chris Hajer 8662@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I think a hidden field like that is designed to catch spammers. Spam bots and scripts tend to be programmed to fill in all the available fields. If there is a field there with a message that says "don't fill this in if you are human", and a submission comes through with that field filled in, chances are it's spam. It's not intended to be edited by the person creating the form. It just goes into the form as is.</p> <p>Glad you got it sorted. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8661 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:46:25 +0000 begatt 8661@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That seems to be it. I didn’t realize I had selected it on the form option.</p> <p>It is new and it works, but it is kind of confusing, how it works. There seems to be no way to edit the field and it indicates it is to be left blank.</p> <p>Now that I have it off, everything seems to be working.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/validation-field-14beta-4#post-8660 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:23:08 +0000 Chris Hajer 8660@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I wonder if that's related to the "Spam Honeypot" mentioned here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/gravity-forms-v1-4-beta-2-released/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/gravity-forms-v1-4-beta-2-released/</a> </p>