Title: Placeholders and Default Values
Last modified: August 20, 2019

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# Placeholders and Default Values

 *  Resolved [hmgh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmgh/)
 * (@hmgh)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/)
 * Is there a way to assign default values and/or placeholders to the Link Field
   element? I’m not sure how to designate either of these for the two fields (URL
   and Link Text).
 * Thank you in advance!

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 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/#post-11850824)
 * If you set a default value for a link field, it will set the “clickable text”
   to the default value, which the user can change.
 * There isn’t an easy way to set the URL to a default value.
 *  Thread Starter [hmgh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmgh/)
 * (@hmgh)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/#post-11850833)
 * That is actually what I did, but it doesn’t seem to work. In my signup form, 
   I’ve got a field for Website, Form Element is set to Link Field, and under Default
   Value I put WEBSITE, as I want all entries to use this value. Then, after saving
   these settings, the form still says Link Text as the placeholder. What am I doing
   wrong?
 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/#post-11854161)
 * I see that it is not easily possible to change the placeholders for the link 
   field. I didn’t realize that, that is something I will want to change, but for
   now, the only way to change it is to use a custom translation file:
 * [Changing the Labels in Participants Database](https://xnau.com/customizing-the-text-in-participants-database/)
 * the key to look for is “linktext”
 *  Thread Starter [hmgh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmgh/)
 * (@hmgh)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/#post-11854537)
 * Thank you!

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/placeholders-and-default-values/#post-11854537)
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