Title: Submit text disappearing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Submit text disappearing

 *  [Mav.MonkeyFish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mavmonkeyfish/)
 * (@mavmonkeyfish)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/)
 * Hi,
 *  I am having a problem with the submit button text on a form disappearing when
   I click on it. The form does not post until the (now empty) submit button is 
   clicked again. I have checked with FireBug and the submit button value is being
   set to nothing.
 * Please can you help me with this issue.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/#post-4531074)
 * Please include a link to your Contact Form 7 form. If others here are able to
   understand your actual problem, they may be able and willing to offer a possible
   solution.
 *  Thread Starter [Mav.MonkeyFish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mavmonkeyfish/)
 * (@mavmonkeyfish)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/#post-4531092)
 * Sorry forgot to add the link, the form is in the footer of [http://aipevents.co.uk/](http://aipevents.co.uk/).
   Thanks
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/#post-4531126)
 * Had a look at your form. You have provided only a very confined space for your
   Contact Form 7 form to display within.
 * It looks like your Send button is being temporarily covered over by messages 
   sent via Contact Form 7’s Javascript. The various messages that CF7 displays 
   when required fields are not filled in are also only partly displaying.
 * I’d suggest you setup another test page where you can give your CF7 form a lot
   more room to see all the messages that CF7 creates to understand the problem.
   Once you understand what happens you hopefully will be able to figure out how
   to make space for these messages.
 * See also [http://contactform7.com/locating-response-message-box-anywhere/](http://contactform7.com/locating-response-message-box-anywhere/)
 *  [newvibe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newvibe/)
 * (@newvibe)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/#post-4531298)
 * I was having the same problem, and managed to solve it…
 * I have values set in the form fields, such as “Name”, “Email”, etc. So I use 
   javascript to clear out the text inside the field when that field gains focus(
   the user tabs to or clicks in the field). Unfortunately, I did not make the selector
   specific enough so that it did not do this on the submit button, so the “value”
   of the submit button was being removed by javascript, which killed the form. 
   I’ve made the javascript do this only on text and email fields, and that solved
   it.

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 * Last reply from: [newvibe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newvibe/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-text-disappearing/#post-4531298)
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