https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Editing error message in submission of required fields en Sun, 03 May 2026 21:03:05 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-21056 Sun, 18 May 2014 07:40:26 +0000 yuniar 21056@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Having the red box color without any message would confuse people, in my opinion. However, if you prefer to do this, you can edit the "includes/language.php" file. Search for this code:</p> <pre><code>$languages[&#39;val_required&#39;] = &#39;This field is required. Please enter a value.&#39;;</code></pre> <p>and change it to become:</p> <pre><code>$languages[&#39;val_required&#39;] = &#39;&#39;;</code></pre> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-21030 Tue, 13 May 2014 10:57:54 +0000 inkpotprinting 21030@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Yuniar, that CSS works great. Is there any way to also get rid of "This field is required. Please enter a value."? I think that simply having a red box is enough to alert the user to the problem. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-20714 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:04:14 +0000 yuniar 20714@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>You can simply add CSS code into your form's theme for that.<br /> Add this code:</p> <pre><code>#error_message { display: none !important; }</code></pre> <p>that should hide the error message from your form, without the need of modifying any file. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-20680 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:48:35 +0000 jblackburn 20680@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>With version 4, is this still the best method? I don't like editing the code as it is one more thing to have to remember when you upgrade. (Like the old custom-hooks hack). </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-16140 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:30:49 +0000 inkpotprinting 16140@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Please ignore me, I am an idiot. That worked perfectly, thanks for your help! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-16139 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:28:25 +0000 inkpotprinting 16139@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>OK I just tried this Yuniar, the code in my view-functions.php looks a bit different to yours. Lines 4324 to 4336 have this:</p> <pre><code>if(!empty($custom_error)){ $form-&gt;error_message =&lt;&lt;&lt;EOT &lt;li id=&quot;error_message&quot;&gt; &lt;h3 id=&quot;error_message_title&quot;&gt;{$custom_error}&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;/li&gt; EOT; }elseif(!empty($error_elements)){ $form-&gt;error_message =&lt;&lt;&lt;EOT &lt;li id=&quot;error_message&quot;&gt; &lt;h3 id=&quot;error_message_title&quot;&gt;{$mf_lang[&#39;error_title&#39;]}&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p id=&quot;error_message_desc&quot;&gt;{$mf_lang[&#39;error_desc&#39;]}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; EOT;</code></pre> <p>Which bits should I change/delete? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-16138 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:17:29 +0000 inkpotprinting 16138@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thank you! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-16131 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:20:32 +0000 yuniar 16131@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>You can edit "includes/view-functions.php" file, search around line 4336-4341 for this block of code:</p> <pre><code>$form-&gt;error_message =&lt;&lt;&lt;EOT &lt;li id=&quot;error_message&quot;&gt; &lt;h3 id=&quot;error_message_title&quot;&gt;{$mf_lang[&#39;error_title&#39;]}&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p id=&quot;error_message_desc&quot;&gt;{$mf_lang[&#39;error_desc&#39;]}&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; EOT;</code></pre> <p>simply remove that block of code. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/editing-error-message-in-submission-of-required-fields#post-16118 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:48:01 +0000 inkpotprinting 16118@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi</p> <p>Is it possible to get rid of "There was a problem with your submission. Errors have been highlighted below." when people don't fill in required fields? I think the red highlighting and "This field is required. Please enter a value." is sufficient for what we need, and the big box at the top makes the form too long.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>