This guide shows how and where to find your form fields’ unique names and IDs.
Finding the Field’s Unique Name
A field’s unique name can be used to reference its value in other places like in email alerts, on the Thank You page, or in other fields. It can also be used to prepopulate a form field.
To get a field’s unique name
- In the Form Builder, select the form element’s gear icon to open properties.
- In the properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
- Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
- Copy the value in the Unique Name field.
For form elements that don’t have the Field Details section, you can use the Form Fields tool in the Paragraph element.
The fields’ unique names can also be found in your form’s default email alerts.
To learn more, see How to Access Your Email Alerts.
Once you have your fields’ unique names, you can use them to display their corresponding values in Paragraph elements, email alerts, or on the Thank You page.
Finding the Field’s IDs
Customizing the appearance of your fields using CSS is a common task in Jotform where you need the field IDs to apply your custom CSS codes.
To get a field’s IDs
- In the Form Builder, select the form element’s gear icon to open properties.
- In the properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
- Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
- Copy the value in the Field IDs field.
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43 Comments:
More than a year ago
kindly explain how to get MORE THaN ONE aUTORESPONDER EMaILS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE aCCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS IN JUST ONE FORM
More than a year ago
I am having the same issue with passing forward each field into my database. I cannot figure out the unique field names?
More than a year ago
So is the format like this {name:first_3} ?
More than a year ago
What id is this
More than a year ago
My 'field ID's' don't exist. Not showing.
More than a year ago
Is there a way to get field name and ID in batch? I have 7 pages on the form so it will take me a long time to document them one by one
More than a year ago
Very interesting post. Thank you
More than a year ago
Prepopulating forms using spread sheet. I clone one form and used the data from the first for to prepopulate. But the name field not prepopulating.All other prepolated using spreadsheet widget. Kindly advice
More than a year ago
Can I get a picture of my photo id
More than a year ago
It's really good to SEE some field data and ID...
But when we need to FIND among dozens of fields which is a specific one (as listed in e-mail form), we need to perform 3 steps for each field (select, Advanced, Details).
A FIND textbox would be great to locate an specific field...
More than a year ago
How do I use this information when importing data. Currently, the entire name goes into the last name field.
More than a year ago
Is there a way to manipulate/edit all the form field IDs in one place, other than the email section or each field's Advanced tab? This would be extra helpful as an additional feature.
More than a year ago
It starts with: In the form builder... how do I get there?!
More than a year ago
gostaria de saber se tem como na opção nome, tirar a etiqueta de sobrenome.
More than a year ago
I can't find my ID's for images or regular text fields?
More than a year ago
I feel like it takes several emails for you to understand what I;m actually telling you, clearly. I told you I used the unique id and it wasn't working. I know where to find it, the issue is, it is NOT WORKING! I am putting that into the notification email as a field and when I recieve the email, it is BLANK!
More than a year ago
It seems the Unique Name "name" will only prepopulate the "First Name". How do I prepopulate "Last Name"?
More than a year ago
I want to make my own image
More than a year ago
I can locate the Unique ID under the advanced properties section of the widget settings, but cannot see the field Id's listed anywhere. So, for my "configurable list" type questions, where a respondent must populate multiple fields in one question, I cannot pull the answers into the URL in order to be passed to my 2nd form.
More than a year ago
Hm. Yes. I already found out how to identify the field ID's.... The problem is however, this doesn't work for the star rating field :-(. Do you guys have another way to approach the field ID 's? CSS coding is worthless without proper field ID's.....
More than a year ago
i do not see field details on the advanced tab i see only the headings: Shrink, Move to A New Line, Hide Field. I am unable to scroll any further down
More than a year ago
Hi, is there a way to find the ID of an upload field so that i can give the person the link
More than a year ago
How does the keyboard shortcut for getting all the field names work on a mac? Shift+Cmd+I doesn't seems to be working for me.
More than a year ago
Fine
More than a year ago
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More than a year ago
Hi,
This feature used to work for me in the old way displayed on video. But new one way is not working at all. Can you plz check what I am doing wrong and provide me feedback at your earliest? My forms name are:Sales order form and Technical work log.
Thanks a lot.
More than a year ago
I can only EDIT properties, I cannot SHOW properties & therefore can not LOCATE FIELD ID. Please advise. What I do is
1. edit my form
2. click on properties icon for my field
3. voila - EDIT properties; nothing about SHOW or field names.
More than a year ago
It is very weird for me , I managed to change it in the Jotform page but on the website the name id field it is half of the size. :/
More than a year ago
Thanks, it worked.
More than a year ago
I too can't find the field details for some of the labels/field. I want to remove the rule(line) dividing Step 5 and Upload Images. I can;t find the field ID to inject CSS to it. It's not appearing on Properties.
More than a year ago
It's just fantastic when apps can communicate with one another!
More than a year ago
If you haven't used Jotform's API, you're missing out!
More than a year ago
It's really neat to see how people use the API!
More than a year ago
ndon't see any checkmarks in the check boxes from my form results?
More than a year ago
Field Details not appearing under Properties for me as well.
More than a year ago
Why is it that in the Properties window, the 'Name:' values have brackets? ex:{name1}.
Are they part of the input field name?
This is somewhat confusing. If these brackets are not part of the field name, then why have them there? They are not in the ID field detail value.
More than a year ago
How do I change the field ID name COLOR?
More than a year ago
Can I change the ID name? as I want to export the .csv and import into a database but require it to match my ID field name.
More than a year ago
How do you find the name of a select.???
More than a year ago
What version does this? My locally hosted version does not have this
More than a year ago
i cant find the id
More than a year ago
How do you find the ID of an picture or image. When I click on properties I don't see it.
More than a year ago
Can you change the field ID or Name?