When adding an address field to your form, you can choose between three options depending on how much information you want to collect. An autocomplete address field suggests an existing street address as you begin typing, and a multi-line address field allows site visitors to add additional info like apartment or house number.
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Adding an autocomplete address field
An autocomplete address field suggests a street address to site visitors once they begin typing their address into the field. The address field takes information from Google Maps.
To add an autocomplete address field:
- Click your contact form in the Editor.
- Click Add New Field.
- Click Autocomplete Address in Contact Fields.
- Click the autocomplete address field in the form and click Edit Field.
- Customize the autocomplete address field by updating the settings:
- Click the Field Title textbox and enter the field name.
Tip: Learn more about adding field titles to your form. - Under Show initial text choose to add 'hint' or placeholder text inside the field to help visitors know what to write:
- None: No text appears inside the field.
- Placeholder text: Text appears inside the field before visitors enter their info.
- Edit the text under Placeholder text.
- Click the Required field checkbox to make the autocomplete address field mandatory.
- Choose to limit the autocomplete address search results to a specific country under Search Preferences.
- None: The autocomplete address field does not limit its search to a specific country.
- Filter by country: The autocomplete address field only searches addresses in a country that you choose.
- Click the Choose a country drop-down to select a country for the autocomplete address to use in its search.
Adding a multi-line address field
Multi-line address fields have different subfields including a second line for a street address as well as a city field, postal or zip code field, and a country drop-down list.
To add a multi-line address field:
- Click your contact form in the Editor.
- Click Add New Field.
- Click Multi-line Address in Contact Fields.
- Click the multi-line address in the form and click Edit Field.
- Customize the multi-line address field by updating the settings:
- Select or deselect the checkboxes next to a subfield under Show these subfields to show or hide that subfield on the form.
- Choose which countries should be included in the Country drop-down:
- All countries: Visitors scroll through a list of countries to select the relevant one.
- My own list: Choose countries to appear on the list. No others will appear other than what you've selected.
- Click Manage country list to open a list of countries.
- Select the countries you want to include in the drop-down.
- Under Subfield Titles, enter the field title text that appears above the fields. Learn more
- Click the Required checkbox to make some or all of the sub-fields in the multi-line address field mandatory.
- Click the Select required subfields drop-down.
- Select the checkboxes next to the subfields that should be required.
Adding a basic address field
A basic address field is a one-line address field. Unlike a multi-line address field, visitors are limited to one text box to enter address details. You can set a character limit for this field.
To add a basic address field:
- Click your contact form in the Editor.
- Click Add New Field.
- Click Address in Contact Fields.
- Click the basic address field in the form and click Edit Field.
- Customize the address field by updating the settings:
- Click the Field Title text box and enter the field name.
Tip: Learn more about adding field titles to your form. - Under Show initial text choose to add 'hint' or placeholder text inside the field to help visitors know what to write:
- None: No text appears inside the field.
- Placeholder text: Text appears inside the field before visitors enter their info.
- Edit the text under Placeholder text.
- Click the Required field checkbox to make the address field mandatory.
- Click the Set character limit toggle:
- Enabled: Visitors are limited to a certain character limit when entering their address.
- Click the number field and input a character limit (between 0 and 1,000,000).
- Disabled: There is no character limit for this field.
