Email

Learn how to use the pre-configured email field to collect and validate email addresses within your Smart Form.

Use an E-mail field when you want respondents to enter an e-mail address.

A message appears if the respondent enters an invalid address. Suggestions for common misspellings are also shown. For example, if the respondent enters john@gnail.com, they’ll see a suggestion for john@gmail.com.

Example

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Field Settings

Required

Label
Enter the text you want to show in the answer field. This could be the question or a hint to help respondents fill in the field. When the respondent begins typing, the label moves above the field.

Data Binding
Enter the data binding for the field. The data binding is used to label and store the information the respondent enters in this field.

Tip  For more information on how to name your data bindings, see Assign data bindings.

Optional

Hint
Enter a short hint to help explain the question. The hint appears below the answer field.

Info-bubble HTML
Enter more information to help explain the question. Users can view the info-bubble by hovering over an icon beside the answer field. You can use HTML tags to format the info-bubble content.

Minimum Length
Enter the minimum number of characters that must be entered.

Maximum Length
Enter the maximum number of characters that can be entered.

Make this field required
Respondents must answer the question to move to the next panel. Click the toggle switch to select this option.

Tip  An * is shown beside the question to indicate that it’s required. You can style the * using CSS.

Disable this field
The question is shown but respondents can’t edit the answer. For example, you may want to show an example answer.

Click the toggle switch to select this option.

Disable when Prepopulated
The question is shown but users can’t edit the answer if the field has been prepopulated with data. For example, you may have captured the user’s city in a previous question and just want to display it here. Users can edit the answer if it hasn’t been prepopulated.

Click the toggle switch to select this option.