User Guides for Freeform

Check out the user guides below to see solutions to common problems and questions:

Quick troubleshooting the most commonly reported issues with your form's appearance, behavior, or submission of the form on the front end.

Form Validation

Explore additional validation options for your forms.

Dynamic Data

Learn how to integrate external data dynamically.

Templating

A variety of commonly requested templating tips.

Fields

Implement custom validation or styles on regular field types.

Submission Data

Tips and tricks for handling submission data.

Specialty Forms

Guides for building specialty forms like user registration.

Best Practices

Guides that show best practices with Freeform.

Testing

Testing and troubleshooting guides for your forms.

Headless

Demos of common headless frameworks and GraphQL.

Developer

Guides for custom development and building modules.

Form Validation

• Form Validation with Parsley
• Form Validation with Foundation Abide
• Form Validation with Bootstrap
• Preventing Certain Email Addresses

Dynamic Data

• Passing Dynamic Data to Forms
• Passing a Custom Property to a Formatting Template
• Fill Field Values from Query String
• Send Email Notifications only in Certain Scenarios
• Populate Field Options at Template Level
• Displaying Submission Data from Previous Pages

Templating

• AJAX Forms
• Caching Forms
• Rendering Form Data as JSON
• Line Breaks in Textarea Fields
• Multiple Instances of the Same Form
• Returning Submit to Same Page
• Success Return URL on Forms
• Alternate Success Markup from a Template or Existing Div after AJAX Submit

Fields

• Allow Additional File Extensions
• Range Slider on Number field
• Toggle Switch on Checkbox field
• Color Picker on Text field
• TinyMCE Rich Text Editor on Textarea field
• Include an "Other" Option for Fields
• Parsing HTML in Field Options

Submission Data

• Submission Data on Success Page
• Display Total Number of Submissions for a Form
• Storing URL Tracking Parameters

Specialty Forms

• User Registration Forms

Best Practices

• How to Stay Informed about Freeform
• Form Submitter's Email Address as the Reply-to Email
• Spam Protection

Testing

• Troubleshooting Form Issues
• Email Testing with Mailtrap
• How to Remove Demo Templates

Headless

• Vue.js + GraphQL demo
• Vue.js + AJAX demo
• React JS + GraphQL demo
• React JS + AJAX demo
• Next.js + GraphQL demo
• Next.js + AJAX demo

Developer

• Building a Custom Module
• Can I make my own CRM or Email Marketing API integration?