[Plugin: Contact Form 7] Adding Custom Form Elements, Not Emailing

  • ciordia9

    (@ciordia9)


    15 years ago

    With the lack of custom textarea handling I’ve been seeking a way to stay within C7 but allow for the flexibility of some added JS.

    In my page I have a textlimiting JS script.

    In my contact form I have:

    Your name: [text text-561]<br />
Your customization:<br />
<textarea name="custom1" cols="50" rows="10" onKeyDown="limitText(this.form.custom1,this.form.countdown,500);"
onKeyUp="limitText(this.form.custom1,this.form.countdown,500);">
</textarea><br />
<font size="1">(Maximum characters: 500)<br />
You have <input readonly type="text" name="countdown" size="3" value="500"> characters left.</font>
<br />[submit "Submit Customization"]

    I thought that a form being what it is would allow me to faux use [custom1] as the label and have it show up in email but it will not.

    The question is, am I close or is this just something that is not possible.. to merge part of C7’s form fields with that of actual form fields and have it all dump into a corresponding email?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Thread Starter ciordia9

    (@ciordia9)

    I look at the source and just am boggled how this won’t work. I’ve went one more level and wrapped the form element with the span/class associated with the rest of this pages contact form and it’s still not translating it. There must be some magic going on somewhere. I hate to edit the php to allow this instance as I’ll be breaking away from updates…

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