How to Find Field IDs and Unique Names

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This guide shows how and where to find your form fields’ unique names and IDs.

Finding the Field’s Unique Name

You can use the field’s unique name to reference its value in other places like in email alerts, on the Thank You page, or in other fields. You can also use unique names to prepopulate form fields.

To get the field’s unique name

  1. In Form Builder, select the element’s gear icon to open Properties.
  2. In the Properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
  3. Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
  4. Copy the value in the Unique Name field.
Steps to get the form element's unique name in Form Builder

For form elements that don’t have the Field Details section, you can use the Form Fields tool in the Paragraph element.

The Form Fields tool in Paragraph element

The fields’ unique names can also be found in your form’s default email alerts.

The fields' unique names in the Notification email in Form Builder

To learn more, see How to Access Your Email Alerts.

You can use the fields’ unique names in Paragraph elements and email alerts or on the Thank You page.

A Paragraph element with field tags
Paragraph Element
An autoresponder template with field tags
Email Alert
A Thank You page with a field tags
Thank You Page
A Thank You page URL redirection with field tags
Send Data via URL Parameters

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 the field’s IDs

  1. In Form Builder, select the element’s gear icon to open Properties.
  2. In the Properties pane on the right, go to Advanced.
  3. Scroll down to the bottom and expand Field Details.
  4. Copy the value in the Field IDs field.
Steps to get the form element's field IDs in Form Builder
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