Issue with website field

Hi Phil.

I tool a peek at MailChimp’s documentation regarding field types, and I can’t find any information on validating and autoformtting the “website” field.

Here is their article: https://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/managing-subscribers/manage-list-and-signup-form-fields

It just says:

Website
Subscribers provide a full URL. This field type generates the HTML code for a link.

You may want to ask their support if there is any auto formatting that happens when people enter a URL into this field or if it is just plain text.

I hope this is helpful.

Thank you!
-Tracy

Hi Phil,

This is actually a check put into place by the HTML5 input field when the type parameter is set to URL.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.url.html

I am working on a new release which will have a fix in place for this. Ideally, when a user entered a URL to a site that doesn’t contain https://, the plugin will now append https:// to the beginning of the URL so that the form can be submit properly.

Keep an eye out for the update at some point this week.

Evan

Hi Phil,

I’m closing out this ticket, because we’ve added the fix for this to the next update of the plugin that is coming out soon.

Thank you for bringing this to out attention!
-Tracy