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[Forminator Pro] Option to turn off the default placeholder text in form fields of Forminator

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The text is not North America based and makes the form look like it may not be a local company:

https://www.screencast.com/t/OndK4DMD

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 5:56:08
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  • Nithin Ramdas
    • Support Wizard

    Hi TGL ,

    The default placeholders are more of a reference where the users could edit to customize the placeholders according to their needs.

    I suppose the concern is only with Address fields? At the moment, I’m afraid you’ll have to manually go through each field and change the default placeholder to your custom text.

    However, I’ll make sure to bring your feature request to our Forminator team’s attention to see what further improvements that could be considered regarding these use cases.

    Kind Regards,
    Nithin

  • Tony G
    • Mr. LetsFixTheWorld

    This one isn’t a big deal but I do think about it every time I create a form.

    It’s not just with the address. I don’t like the default placeholders for name, email, and other fields. It’s not really that “I don’t like them” – more that I don’t like the requirement that I have to manually override them in every single form.

    Here are some options to consider:

    1) It would be ideal if the documentation tells us exactly where the default text is stored in wp-options for each field type. That way we can zap that ourselves.

    2) If there is a hook right after the default placeholder text is asserted, we should be able to filter the text before it appears in either the forminator form definitions or in the published form. This would only take a couple lines of code which many of us could publish in a gist.

    3) While I don’t want to create extra work for DEV staff, another option is to add configuration options for replacement of all of the default placeholders.

    4) Barring all else, just document where the text is in the code so that site admins can decide for themselves how they want to approach the topic. Someone might offer a PR with the hook described above, or another solution based on the detail. I haven’t looked at the code for a long time and don’t remember that detail, otherwise I’d offer something here.

    There are other ways to skin this cat :cat: – my goal is always to prefer a more versatile approach than the typical “hardcoded or nothing” solution that usually results from requests like this.