I need to add some freeform html/text between fields.
Other than writing a filter to replace/delete unwanted output, is there a way to insert a true HTML block that isn't wrapped?
So, instead of this:
<li id="field_3_53" class="gfield gfield_html gfield_html_formatted gfield_no_follows_desc">whatever
It just outputs this:
whatever
Thoughts?
Not really. I've seen some people use JavaScript to do replacement on the HTML to strip out things they don't want so that they get closer to the output they need, but beyond that, I don't know of any way to do what you are asking.
Thanks David for the quick reply. I was thinking of doing it with either jQuery or a filter but was trying to avoid it. :)
Have you guys ever considered adding a select option to the field to output only what is in the content box? I think this would be beneficial and of interest to many...and it wouldn't be that difficult to implement programmatically.
I haven't heard any discussions of that. I think the biggest worry is how that would change styling. Imagine a field being output in a "raw" mode without our wrappers, and then someone tries to use our CSS Ready class to make a bullet list three columns. It isn't going to work, and our troubleshooting would be greatly increased.
Also, as a per-item option, it would potentially clutter the UI. If you want, I can move this to feature requests though so our development team will take a look.
I think it'd be of benefit. Of course people can screw anything up so maybe you add a "use at your own risk" next to the checkbox - but it would allow for proper implementation of fieldsets and other things. I come from the cform world and they had a field like this which I found I was using all the time when I needed to "hack" something in. It would be much easier to have this option than to write filters or jQuery code on a case by case basis.
Thanks again David. ;)
Moved to Feature Requests. :)
Richard Vav
Administrator
In the html field could you not close the li and ul elements then enter whatever custom code you want before reopening the ul and li like so
</li>
</ul>
whatever
<ul class="gform_fields top_label description_below">
<li>Richard - to follow up on this - it works until you are wrapping a fieldset with conditional logic. As soon as you escape the fieldset with the the conditional logic is thrown out the window.
So I do think that this type of field could add some real value.
;)