https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Change Value Default for placeholder en Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40:35 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-21073 Tue, 20 May 2014 00:06:15 +0000 burkecom 21073@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes and when using the place holder, the required fields error section removes the placeholder... as i am using hidden field titles the boxes are highlighted and show blank boxes.</p> <p>any way to have placeholders remain? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-21069 Mon, 19 May 2014 09:26:34 +0000 adamaliau 21069@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>can we have a new database field to be added to capture the placeholder value and in the code we configure the value as it would be a clean solution for this? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-21022 Tue, 13 May 2014 05:48:08 +0000 yuniar 21022@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Just a note for anyone doing this modification, make sure not to replace your field's label completely with placeholders as it might reduce the usability of your form. A good read on this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-20996 Fri, 09 May 2014 20:29:22 +0000 ChessMan 20996@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>@burkecom - great question - bump.</p> <p>Also, paragraph replace would be awesome.</p> <p>You can edit MF3.5 <code>"includes/view-functions.php"</code> file.</p> <p>line # 144<br /> line # 732<br /> line # 779<br /> line # 960<br /> line # 2727</p> <p><code>value="{$element-&gt;default_value}"</code></p> <p>WITH</p> <p><code>placeholder="{$element-&gt;default_value}"</code></p> <p>as Yuniar mentioned above </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-20979 Thu, 08 May 2014 23:58:07 +0000 burkecom 20979@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Has there been any progress with creating a placeholder section so we dont have to change this per machform? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17916 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:46:54 +0000 jdevelopia 17916@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>thanks a lot Yunair, don´t worry I understand perfectly the reason. </p> <p>Again, thanks a lot. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17868 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:01:08 +0000 yuniar 17868@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'm afraid the paragraph field is a bit more complicated and you can't simply change the attribute to "placeholder" without affecting the whole functionality. Sorry. I don't have a workaround for this yet. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17796 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:57:08 +0000 jdevelopia 17796@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I think I change the line 258 of view-functions </p> <pre><code>$element_markup = &lt;&lt;&lt;EOT &lt;li id=&quot;li_{$element-&gt;id}&quot; {$li_class}&gt; &lt;label class=&quot;description&quot; for=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}&quot;&gt;{$element-&gt;title} {$span_required}&lt;/label&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;textarea id=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}&quot; name=&quot;element_{$element-&gt;id}&quot; class=&quot;element textarea {$element-&gt;size}&quot; rows=&quot;8&quot; cols=&quot;90&quot; {$input_handler}&gt;{$element-&gt;default_value}&lt;/textarea&gt; {$range_limit_markup} &lt;/div&gt;{$guidelines} {$error_message} &lt;/li&gt; EOT; return $element_markup; }</code></pre> <p>but i can´t do it successfull! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17638 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:18:25 +0000 jdevelopia 17638@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I can´t find the function to change the Default Value into the Field Type "Paragraph Text".</p> <p>Help!! ;)</p> <p>Thanks a lot! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17577 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:47:08 +0000 jdevelopia 17577@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>hi again!</p> <p>When I put some text in Defalut Value in a Field Type "Paragraph Text" the placeholder doesn´t works.</p> <p>What I need to change?</p> <p>Thanks a lot!!!! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17562 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:15:53 +0000 jdevelopia 17562@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Great!!! I have it!!! thanks thanks a lot Yuniar!</p> <p>big hug!! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17554 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:29:00 +0000 yuniar 17554@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>You can edit the "includes/view-functions.php" file. There are many places you need to adjust though.<br /> Basically you need to find this code:</p> <pre><code>value=&quot;{$element-&gt;default_value}&quot;</code></pre> <p>and change it to become:</p> <pre><code>placeholder=&quot;{$element-&gt;default_value}&quot;</code></pre> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/change-value-default-for-placeholder#post-17531 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:51:14 +0000 jdevelopia 17531@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi guys</p> <p>How I can change the "value" for "placeholder"?</p> <p>When I put a "Default Value" in one of my field-forms I see this code:<br /> &lt;input id="element_1" class="element text medium" type="text" value="Default Value" name="element_1"&gt; how I can changes this by:<br /> &lt;input id="element_1" class="element text medium" type="text" placeholder="Default Value" name="element_1"&gt;</p> <p>Thanks a lot! </p>