Input elements - Post ID 267049

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I feel silly for asking this but I cannot find a way of setting an initial value or placeholder of an input element, is that right ?
Just to add I've tried using the Attributes panel to enter placeholder or value and it prompts that they're reserved.
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Hi,
Does anyone have the answer to this? Im having the same problem
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Surely there must be a simple way to label a form text field? Anybody?
User 2837804 Photo


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The only way I know to do this is, drop a html element in your row then add a form container in your html element, then add to your html

<input value="" name="text-name" type="text" placeholder="My Value">
<input value="" name="text-name" type="text" placeholder="My Value">

It works perfectly!
The cool part is that you can then select the input fields :-)
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User 1471420 Photo


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Thanks very much for that helpful post Case. Much appreciated!

:)
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I have another problem with a form field. Ive set one up for the name and another for the email. Ive made the email required and the name field optional. But, the name field is triggering an error message when anything is input! When its left empty it goes through!

the error message that pops up next to the form field is "Please match the requested format" any ideas anyone?

And while im asking. What are those form field options in FF "Pattern" and "Form"?

What I'd give for a help file!
:)
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Hi Barry,
Which type of input did you use for the name?
The pattern is for regular expressions.
http://www.html5pattern.com/

The form attribute allows inputs to be tied to a form but be outside the actual form container.
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Hi Eric, thanks for replying and for the interesting link :)

I used the first type in the list, called 'Input' It seems to be the only one available to collect information such as users names.

Removing all css doesn't remove this error correction either. So I don't even know where to find this code or how it is affecting the form. Perhaps the Foundation framework is picking up the <form> tag and adding the error correction code to that?

If that is the case, then would adding a bespoke form, pasted in to a html element in FF not result in the same error correction being added? Really not sure what is going on here!
Anyone know how to turn this off?

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Can you share a link or a rff file?
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I was able to turn this off by selecting the form and then disabling error correction.
Not perfect, but...

Seems to be a problem with FF? Namely that if you use an 'input' field you cannot submit the form if you are using error correction.

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