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How to make a box for Legal Stuff

  1. nessuno
    Member

    Hi,

    how can I make a box to put Legal text into. Like on your demo site: http://www.gravityforms.com/demo/inline-html/

    Thank you and kind regards,
    Daniel

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  2. Daniel,

    Check out the "gf_scroll_text" ready class information here:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/CSS_Ready_Classes

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  3. tcs
    Member

    Also there is a tos plugin for gravity forms which I find works really well. It keeps a copy of the legal stuff in the entry which could be handy. I am not sure but I don't think using scroll text permits this.

    You can also send the tos through in notifications using the plugin (again not sure if this is possible with section breaks and scroll text)

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  4. nessuno
    Member

    Rob,

    thank you! It works.

    Just another quick question: If I want to bold text, insert URLs, etc. I just use HTML?
    I tried
    and it works fine. I tried and <b></b> and it does not work.

    Daniel

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  5. nessuno
    Member

    tcs: thank you, but I have a personal license, so I can not dl addons. I just need to display the TOS. Thats it. Underneath I have a checkbox to tick that user agrees with the above TOS.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  6. Try using the strong tag perhaps rather than b?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  7. I tried doing this to a section break field but every time i try to update my form it deletes the legal text I entered. How can I fix this?

    http://sharedfunding.com/plowshare-form/

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  8. What about using an HTML field instead and then we just style that field. The ready class I gave you was more for when you have a really insanely large amount of text, so it auto scrolls in a confined area. I see your text here is not very large, so an HTML field may better suit your needs.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  9. tcs
    Member

    The tos plugin is a free one. I thought personal license was ok for free gf addons ?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 20, 2012 | Permalink
  10. The TOS add-on was not created by Gravity Forms (Rocketgenius.) The terms of the license and any associated cost is up to the developer. Can you post a link to it please?

    However, there is no reason to use an additional plugin to provide a TOS check box.

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday July 21, 2012 | Permalink
  11. tcs
    Member

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-terms-of-service-field/ is the tos addon I am using.

    I was unable to find any other way using standard gravity forms fields and functionality to get scrollable terms of service AND store those in the entry and email them back to the customer.

    HTML fields or section breaks with CSS classes used to display tos don't seem to allow the precise details of the tos to be stored or used in notifications.

    I would guess a lot of people would want to store and notify agreed terms.

    If I am wrong and gf does this let me know as i agree with not using a plugin if you don't need one.

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday July 21, 2012 | Permalink
  12. If you want to store them with the entry and having the textarea be scrollable, then using the TOS plugin is the way to go. HTML elements added to the form through the form builder are not stored with the entry. You're doing it correctly.

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday July 21, 2012 | Permalink