How to Add and Set Up the Provinces of France Widget on Your Form

With Jotform, you can easily add a ready-made list of French provinces to your forms without the hassle of creating or maintaining the list yourself. The Provinces of France widget provides a clean, organized dropdown that lets users quickly choose their province, making it easier to collect consistent location details. It’s a simple way to keep your forms clear, structured, and user-friendly—especially when you need reliable regional information from people in France.

Whether you’re building registration forms, applications, surveys, or service requests, this widget helps make location selection straightforward for your respondents. By offering a standardized list in an easy-to-use dropdown, it keeps your form looking polished and professional while saving you time and effort behind the scenes.

Here are a few ways to use it:

• Let your users quickly select their province in French registration, application, or sign-up forms.
• Collect accurate province information from respondents in surveys, contact forms, or feedback forms targeting users in France.
• Keep entries limited to valid French provinces to avoid spelling mistakes or incorrect locations.
• Standardize location data across submissions so it’s easier to organize, review, and filter responses.
• Help users complete forms faster by replacing manual province typing with a simple dropdown selection.
• Use it in order forms, booking forms, or service request forms that require regional details from customers in France.
• Segment or analyze responses by province to better understand where your users or customers are located.
• Create a smoother and more professional experience when users enter their location on your forms.

Whether you’re creating a new form or updating an existing one, you can add and set up the Provinces of France widget in a few easy steps. Here’s how to do it:

1. In Form Builder, click on Add Element on the left side of the page.

2. Now, in the Form Elements menu, under the Widgets tab, search for Provinces of France and click on it. Or, just drag and drop it to where you want it to be on your form.

3. Next, in the Widget Settings menu that opens on the right side of the page, under the General tab, select No in the Abbreviate Dropdown menu if you want the form to submit the state’s full name. Or, keep it set to Yes to submit the abbreviated version of the selected state.
4. Once you’re done, click on Update.

That’s it. Now you’ve added and set up the Provinces of France widget on your form. Wondering how it looks in action? Check out this demo form.