Title: Customizing fields/Adding placeholder text?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Customizing fields/Adding placeholder text?

 *  [VanityVisuals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanityvisuals/)
 * (@vanityvisuals)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/)
 * Hello there,
 * I’d like customize my form by adding placeholder text in the boxes, and changing
   the box names.
 * Is it possible?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/#post-5575214)
 * See [Setting Placeholder Text](http://contactform7.com/setting-placeholder-text/)
   and [Admin Screen](http://contactform7.com/admin-screen/).
 *  Thread Starter [VanityVisuals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanityvisuals/)
 * (@vanityvisuals)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/#post-5575239)
 * Ah, I’d missed the ‘Admin Screen’
 * Thankyou!
 *  Thread Starter [VanityVisuals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanityvisuals/)
 * (@vanityvisuals)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/#post-5575249)
 * Could you possible tell me what code I’d need to input in order to hide the field
   names? I like my forms to have no labels, only the placeholder. I managed this
   with another form by commenting out the ‘label’ in the form’s php file.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/#post-5575290)
 * > RE: I like my forms to have no labels, only the placeholder
 * This is now widely regarded as poor practice for anything but very simple common
   forms like user login etc., ​as the placeholder is deleted as soon as users start
   typing in the field. Users have to remember what the required input is, which
   many users find confusing. It is also not accessable.
 * However if you have a really basic form where you are not concerned with accessibility,​​
   you should include a link to your Contact Form 7 form plus all your input in 
   the Form and Mail sections of the CF7 interface.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fieldsadding-placeholder-text/#post-5575290)
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