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Dynamically populating HTML fields

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  1. Wheaton College
    Member

    I am not sure this is possible, but wanted to ask.

    I am dynamically populating fields based on GET parameters. This works fine.

    however, I would like to use these dynamic values in an HTML field. For example, if the GET is

    http://somesite.com/?date=2011-8-3

    I would like to 1) populate a hidden field and 2) use that date value in an HTML field for display only. I can do 1) but not 2).

    I could probably use jQuery to copy the data from the hidden field and put it into the HTML on the page, but this seems like a kludge.

    any ideas? or... maybe in the future?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Please see:

    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/html-block-does-not-have-populate-dynamically-option#post-31421

    The ability to populate HTML fields is not present, but you can use the gform_pre_render hook to populate the area.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Permalink

  3. Wheaton College
    Member

    Thanks Chris. It would be much more portable (and easier) to allow for the HTML field to be sort of a template... possibly using things like

    { $field }.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Permalink

  4. Wheaton College
    Member

    thanks, I have this working now.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday August 4, 2011 | Permalink

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