Advanced Features

Advanced Features

Update Note that Jotform Encrypted Forms 2.0 is now in effect, where submission data is protected by end-to-end encryption and can be accessed with an access code. Click here to learn more about Jotform Encrypted Forms 2.0. An encrypted...

Would you like to set limits on your Date Picker? For example, you only want to allow your users to enter dates that fall on a weekend. That is now possible with the new advanced options added to the default Date Picker element....

Adding a form to your website using the Source Code embed method allows you to customize your form even further with HTML and JavaScript. You can even host the form's resource files on your server....

Aside from the built-in form designer, you can also customize your forms using CSS in the Form Builder. This guide contains a few examples of CSS codes that you can try or use on your forms. For applying CSS to your form, see Injecting Custom CSS...

Jotform's Form Builder has a built-in form designer that you can use to make your form look exactly how you want it to without coding. Custom CSS codes are also supported if you're looking for more customization options. Note This guide...

Create an approval process in Jotform. Different companies or businesses will always have their approval process. Surely, we can't cover all of them so this guide will be leaning more towards discussing general guidelines on how to come up with a...

Form warnings can guide your respondents in filling out your form. They help prevent incorrect or incomplete answers like an invalid email address or an empty required field. You can customize your form warning messages to your desired tone or...

What’s a Smart Form? In the most basic sense, smart forms are dynamic. Instead of static words on a screen, smart forms can change based on how a user answers a question using conditional logic. Want to segment questions to different types...

Jotform Form Builder is very flexible and you can customize your forms as you wish. Standard field spacing can be changed as well to fit your needs and match your design better. When you reduce the spacing between questions, your form will be...

Your form accepts multiple submissions by default. If you want to prevent your responders from making multiple submissions in your form, the Unique Submission will be helpful. This Unique...

The Send Post Data option in the Form Builder allows you to send your form data to an endpoint via an HTTP POST request. You can use https://www.jotform.com/show-post-data/ as the endpoint or destination URL to view your submissions as POST data...

Unique Field is one of Jotform's features that allows you to set limits based on an answer from a specific field. For example, accept unique email addresses or prevent someone from submitting the same data on a Short Text Entry element. ...

The Appointment form element allows your form fillers to book time slots on your form. By default, collected appointments can only be rescheduled or canceled by you, the form owner, by editing or deleting the appointment's entry respectively. This...

This guide shows how to include the entry's edit link in your Autoresponder. Your respondents can use this link to update their submissions. For sending entry update requests to your respondents, see Sending Submission Update Requests....

Note This guide is now obsolete. For the new version, see “How to Pass Field Value to Another Field”. The form pictured below illustrates our objective. Click the image to use the form. As you can see, if a user were to...

This guide shows the basics of how PHP request methods work with PHP forms. There are 2 ways PHP can interact with forms. GET Method The GET request method carries the form's submitted...

Sending an autoresponder email is the primary method of allowing users to view a copy of their submission through your form. If you want to avoid doing this or integrating your form into any 3rd party application, providing users a direct URL to...

Jotform offers many embedding features. Embedding Form as a Lightbox can be useful in case when you need a form to be opened in a separate pop-up window. You can set a form window to be opened automatically after the page is loaded. To...

Clearing form caches is one of the ways to troubleshoot or refresh your forms. It won't cause you to lose any data and it's safe and easy to perform. To clear your form caches Go to Account...

Sometimes, you will want to have your form communicate with your users as they fill it out. The reasons for that are many and conditional logic is here to help you. In this guide, you will see how you can make...

Sometimes we need additional information from you when we troubleshoot an issue with the forms. An extra helpful step would be to provide a console report from your browser when the issue happens. Below are the steps to view your browser's...

See also: Prefill You can prepopulate your form fields by including the query strings in the URL. The query component is indicated by the first question mark ("?") followed by the query parameters in the URL. Multiple query parameters are...

This guide shows how to use conditional logic to skip pages based on the form filler's answers. You can set the conditions based on your requirements. For this guide, the following demo form will be used as an example. It skips to a page depending...

Update We are excited to announce that we have just released the new version of Jotform PDF Editor. We believe you're already familiar with our Customize PDF Report feature. However, if you like exploring new options to create a...

One of the things you can do with conditional logic is to change the Thank You Message based on the answer or combination of answers in your form. Instead of the static text, you can use this feature to display personalize messages upon...

Input Masking may be underrated or not used often, but it is handy in different situations, especially if you talk about specifying and accepting input in a fixed format — for example, formatting for a custom date, number, or phone number. ...

Now you want to enable or disable your form fields based on the user's input. That is possible using Jotform's Conditional Logic. Disabling or settings the form fields to read-only can be useful if you need to keep them visible while...

With Field Prepopulator, you can prepopulate your form with the data you provide manually. But on some occasions, you may want to automatically pass form data to prepopulate another form. This guide shows how to pass form data to another form...

There were occasions when you wanted to restrict access to your form at certain hours. Some use cases are the following: Cater registrations, and you only want to accept entries during business hours.Offer promotions that are only available...

Jotform logs your account activities, such as if you delete or purge a form from your account. It logs the form you created and modified. You can also view the emails from your form. It is similar to an audit trail focusing on your account and...

The PDF Editor allows you to customize the PDF copy of your submissions. You can add additional elements to the document and style it with a custom theme. However, if you want to print the form with the user's data and print it the way you...

This is a guide that will help you setup an external notifier if your Jotform email alerts failed to send or were in the bounce list.  Please note that this is for advanced users or who are familiar with programming.  Here are the...

The Edit URL is one of the features in the Form Builder, particularly with the form emails, that you can use for updating specific submission data without logging in to your Jotform account. You can also provide the same to your form users to...

Save and Continue Later, also known as Autofill or Continue Forms Later, offers ways for your form fillers to save their partially filled-out form. It is useful for long forms or forms with multiple pages. ...

When translating a form into different languages, the emails, particularly the autoresponder email, still follow your default language for the form. For example, if the labels are in English, the form sends the email with English labels. To...

This guide highlights how to show or hide multiple form fields at once using Conditional Logic. This can be useful if you need to show follow-up questions based on the form filler's answers. This can also help in tidying up your form by making...

If you're already familiar with Jotform Webhooks, here are example scripts that you may want to try. Make sure to update the field names on these scripts with the field names from your form. Instant Email Notification This is an email...

Populate fields like text box, email, textarea, or even an address fieldset using the Update/Calculate Field condition. We'll be using this form as an example where we need to pass the Personal...

Not to be confused with page background. Sometimes, instead of having the background of a form fully transparent or opaque, you may like something in between. This guide highlights how you can change your form background's opacity. Here's...

Modal windows can be used to show ads, messages, or additional information. This guide shows how you can implement a modal popup window on your form. View this demo form to see what it looks like....

Jotform is serious about GDPR compliance. If you are from European Union (EU) or doing business within this region, you must store your forms and data in EU Datacenter. By default, Jotform automatically sets the account created within the EU...

This guide shows how to send your form fillers' data after submission via an HTTP POST request to your server, a custom Thank You page, or a 3rd party service. To send your form's submission data via an HTTP POST request In the Form...

The Time field allows users to enter a valid time format in the form. It will display the time based on timezone and time format in your account settings. Note The new Default Theme requires users to enter the time. It is optimized to...

You can customize the appearance of the lightbox and feedback embeds, but you can't change the style of its window title, especially when you opt to use the default. You can only style it by inserting the following custom CSS into your website's...

Jotform Form Builder is super easy and customizable. If you need to change Clear/Reset and Print buttons' text – you can easily do that in a couple of minutes. To change the default text, please follow these simple steps: In your form,...

The Unique Field allows you to prevent users from submitting the same information twice in the form. However, this feature only allows you to select a single field. To select multiple fields, you must utilize the existing features in the Form...

What Is API and What Does an API Key Do? The Application Programming Interface or API is a way to retrieve and transfer data between different services. Jotform creates unique API keys for each services like widgets and integrations. These...

When creating forms in a Classic Form Layout, you'll have the option to design your forms with Custom CSS codes. It's one of the cool features in the Form Builder that allows you to customize the overall look of your form, including the Product...

If you need to redirect your form fillers to a specific page after submitting the form, this guide will show you how. Note This guide is for Classic forms. For Card forms, see this guide....

The Auto-Delete Submission feature automatically moves the submissions received from a form to Trash. This can be useful if you're transferring your form submission data to a 3rd party service or to your custom setup via API or Webhooks where the...

If you have this long list of product items, you could minimize its length by enabling columns aside from adding Product Categories. We have the below methods, which depend on the form theme you're using. Setting up Two Columns With Product...

The Address is one of the elements in the Form Builder with multiple fieldsets. Jotform recommends this field when setting up a third-party integration as it is optimized to match the appropriate fields automatically. The field also responds to...

Add "reverseButtonText: true," to your feedback code. An example is below: new JotformFeedback({ formId: "1***", buttonText: "Untitled Form", base: "https://www.jotform.com/", background:'#F59202', fontColor:'#FFFFFF',...

Aside from the Review Before Submit widget which allows your users to view their answers before they submit the form, you can also set up your form to show the user's answers on the built-in Thank You page after submission. Here's how:...

Arabic, Hebrew, Pashto, Persian, Urdu, and Sindhi are common languages that are written from right to left (RTL). If your form's script needs to be in the RTL direction, you can use CSS. To align your form in the RTL direction In the Form...

If your form is embedded onto multiple web pages, you can monitor where the entries are coming from by using a widget or a hidden field. This guide shows how to tag an embedded form's submissions by prepopulating a hidden field. For the...

Do you want to automatically save the form data into a word document? Or, better yet, populate a word template with a form data? That's easy with Make (formerly Integromat). With Make, you can connect Jotform to over a hundred services like...

Adding a print button to your form enables your users to have a hard or PDF copy of your form. &feature=emb_title To add a print button to your form In the Form Builder, select your Submit...

You can use CSS if you need to hide your form's field labels to match your site's style or simply don't like to display the field labels. This guide shows how to create the CSS code for hiding your form field labels. To apply the CSS code to your...

Jotform is now available in many languages, in addition to English. Please see a list of available languages below. If you do not see your language in this list, please fill out this form....

Some users have told us they prefer the older version. At least until all bugs were sorted out on the new version. We respected that. That's why we kept Jotform v2 alive for some time. New registrations were closed but existing users could...

Note The method described in this guide has been deprecated. Current version of Jotform Form Builder automatically saves the form building process. However, now you can revert changes made on your form. You can check our guide on how to manage...