Title: Returning field slug
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Returning field slug
* Resolved [MarkPGray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markpgray/)
* (@markpgray)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/)
* I’m trying to display the field slug but can’t figure it out. When I try and
use ‘name’ it actually returns the field’s label rather than the slug name. I’m
using ACF and a flexible content loop. Here’s what I want…
* `[sub field="mpg_section_title"]
`
* Hope this makes sense.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)
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* [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
* (@habannah)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325367)
* I don’t use ACF so I hope I’m not leading you astray, but I don’t think there’s
actually a parameter to display the slug. Still, you could do it using the pass
shortcode:
* ```
[pass field="field_slug_here"]
[sub field="mpg_section_title"]
[/pass]
```
* Something along those lines should work… I hope this helps!
* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325368)
* What type of field are you trying to display, like a radio/select/checkbox –
something that returns a slug or label as value? You can try the general parameter`
out="slug"`, but it depends if it’s supported or not.
* I’m currently working on an update of all plugin modules, and plan to improve
the ACF shortcodes also. I’ll make a note to look at displaying value slugs for
suitable field types.
* Thread Starter [MarkPGray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markpgray/)
* (@markpgray)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325371)
* Hmmm, I realise my question was not very clear, sorry about that.
* I have a ‘text’ field and want retrieve its name (slug).
* E.g. If field name (slug) is “mpg_section_title”, I would like to use this value.
* Hope this is clearer?
* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325374)
* I see, the _field_ slug, not the slug of its value. Hmm..how are you getting
the field label to display?
* To be honest, I haven’t worked with the flexible content field in some time,
so I had to set up a test page to fully explore what is possible and what is
not.
* From what I see, it seems the label and slug of the field _value_ is possible
to display, but not slug of the field itself. Since you’re manually specifying
it for [sub], couldn’t you do the same for ``? Or is there a reason
it needs to be dynamically generated?
* Thread Starter [MarkPGray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markpgray/)
* (@markpgray)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325376)
* Within the flexible content field I have a layout field (called Section) which
has two sub fields; a text field (Section Header) and a WYSIWYG field (section
Content). This Section field can be repeated any number of times when adding
content to the backend. I need to dynamically generate an id for the Section
Header field so the the in-page navigation works.
* Thread Starter [MarkPGray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markpgray/)
* (@markpgray)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325378)
* Here’s the code I am using…
* ```
[flex field="page_layout"]
[layout name="section"]
[sub field="section_content"]
[/layout]
[/flex]
```
* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/returning-field-slug/#post-5325471)
* With the latest update, you can generate unique IDs like this:
* ```