Translate the "Please select" text in the dropdown field

[Jot] Unfortunately, the option to translate the "Please select" text is not available. We can provide you with a custom CSS code that will hide this text. Please let us know if that works for you.

[Bruce] Yes, please, if there is CSS to override "Please select...", please let me know.

Actually, I would like English to be just "Select..." (it's too long and gets cut off on mobile).

And I want to change the Japanese to "選択".

Hi Bruce, we do apologize for the inconvenience.

Currently, it is not possible to translate the "please select" default option in the dropdown field.

I have forwarded a feature request to our developers to enable translation for the default option.

Thank you.

Thanks Richie_P,

This may have already been lodged, but never hurts to ask again :-)

Two issues actually (not just translation),
1) Even in the native language, this should be editable as any label.
Yeah sure, "Please select.." is likely most common. But, it isn't always necessary to say please. Some fields, where the selection is just some numbers, the box can/should be very narrow. Especially when you want to arrange several side-by-side.

2) Yes, "Please select..." is not presented as an option in the translation table in Settings >> Languages.
Along with a bunch of other fields which have also been reported.

All I can do is hope.
I wish the JotForm developers paid better attention to user experience.

Thanks again!
Bruce

Hi Bruce,

We understand and appreciate your feedback.

We will be informing our backend team about the additional information that you have provided.

Thank you.

Any update on this small but important bug??

The feature is assigned already to our developers however, the priority is still set to nice to do.

Once we have further information, you will be notified.

Thank you.

Okay, thanks. I will check back next month.

Also, please send me a link to your published priority list.
I am a paying customer.

Unfortunately, we cannot share any feature priority list.

Once we have further information, you will be notified.

Thank you.

Any update?

Currently, there is no update regarding the feature request and the priority status is still the same "Nice to Do".

Once we have further information, you will be notified at this feature request ticket.

Thank you.

It's been over a year. C'mon Jot!! You can do better!

Hello WSIguy,

We are sorry if this is taking too long. Rest assured that we still have this on the table and our backend team is aware of it. If there's any update, you'll be notified.

LOL
Blah, blah, blah, blah...

You don't even publish a list of your priorities. So, there is no "resting assured".
Forgive my frustration.

Hello WSIguy,

We're sorry if it's taking a while.

We will notify our backend team and ask for a follow-up.

We appreciate your patience on this matter.

Hi WSIguy.

This feature was added and is available right now. Check out the steps and screencast below to see how it's done:

1. Go to the Dropdown field's settings
2. And then to the Options tab on the top menu
3. Enable the "Show Text in Empty" option and enter the new placeholder value

For the translation, you can set translated value in the translation editor page. Check out the screencast below to see how it's done:

Let us know if you have any questions.