Placeholder text gets submitted

  • Resolved tomicakorac

    (@tomicakorac)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    I’m experiencing a problem with placeholder text. All of my fields set to be required. All the fields also have placeholders. My problem is, even if a visitor does not fill in any of the fields, that field’s placeholder gets submitted as the field’s value, and the submission looks something like:

    Name: Name*
    Email: Email*
    Website: Website*
    Message: Message*

    The same problem also exists if I set watermarks instead of placeholders. I’ve tried debugging this, with no luck…

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Try switching to the default theme.

    Thread Starter tomicakorac

    (@tomicakorac)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I’m afraid I’m not able to, since it’s a live website. Why do you think switching to the default theme would help?

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Because I often see similar issues. They are caused by JavaScript in their theme.

    Thread Starter tomicakorac

    (@tomicakorac)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Well I guessed it could have something to do with JavaScript, but I don’t think I could change the entire theme of a live site to resolve this issue. Takayuki, since you say you often see similar issues, can you please provide some links to their solutions, so that I can further track down the root?

    Thread Starter tomicakorac

    (@tomicakorac)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve found the fix. The problem was indeed in the theme’s ‘cusotm.js’ file:

    $('input[type="text"]').each(function () {
        var $me = $(this),
	    DefaultVal = $me.attr('placeholder');

	});

    By commenting that out, validation works as expected.

    Takayuki, thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

    Thread Starter tomicakorac

    (@tomicakorac)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Sorry, forgot to mark the topic as resolved.

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