Title: Email Validation Error
Last modified: October 17, 2016

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# Email Validation Error

 *  Resolved [diywptips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywptips/)
 * (@diywptips)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m having an email validation issue with the plugin – the email field is showing
   as invalid (i.e. formatted with a red line around it) immediately, as soon as
   the page loads, even if it’s empty.
 * Is there something I can do to resolve this, please?
 * ![Email Validation Error](https://i0.wp.com/www.diywptips.com/wp-content/uploads/
   2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-17-at-21.49.png)
 * Thank you!
    [http://www.diywptips.com](http://www.diywptips.com) (currently in
   maintenance mode)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8319075)
 * Hello,
 * Is there any way we could take a look at it?
 * Thank you!
    -Tracy
 *  Thread Starter [diywptips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywptips/)
 * (@diywptips)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324253)
 * Hi Tracy,
 * Yes – it’s now live at [http://www.diywptips.com](http://www.diywptips.com).
 * This page for example: [http://www.diywptips.com/2016/10/set-up-e-mail-list-grow-your-blog/#more-967](http://www.diywptips.com/2016/10/set-up-e-mail-list-grow-your-blog/#more-967)
 * or the form in the sidebar.
 * Thank you
 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324507)
 * Hi There,
 * Your theme’s style sheet has this code on line 75 that is adding that red shadow
   to the field.
 *     ```
       input:invalid, textarea:invalid {
           border-radius: 1px;
           -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px red;
           -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px red;
           box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px red;
       }
       ```
   
 * I imagine you will know how to safely fix this because you have a post on theme
   customization 🙂
 * If you need more help, just let me know!
 * Thank you!
    -Tracy
 *  Thread Starter [diywptips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywptips/)
 * (@diywptips)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324545)
 * Ah! Thank you.
 * However, why is it showing as invalid when nothing has been entered into it yet?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324578)
 * That I honestly do not know. I’ve never seen that happen on one of our forms 
   before.
 *  Thread Starter [diywptips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywptips/)
 * (@diywptips)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324588)
 * OK – I’ve implemented. Form seems to be working in any case.
 * Thanks for your help Tracy. At least that’s a partial / temporary fix even if
   we don’t know why the error!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324622)
 * Woot!
 * Happy to help, have a good day!
    -Tracy

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-error-2/#post-8324622)
 * Status: resolved