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I am currently running Drupal with a module that uses an email address as the username.  When I create a new user in Drupal I am only asked for an email address.

When a new user accesses a contribution form with attached membership, the first items listed are Membership Amount and Email Address.  It seems to me that non authenticated users are then also asked for username with a nice 'Check Availability' option next to it.

I don't want my members to select a username, but rather I would prefer that the email address is used as their username. 

Is there any way to do this in Civi?  I assume that the username being asked in the Civi contribute form is hard coded in though I am not sure how it integrates with Drupal if I use modules that override the default Drupal user creation?

Thanks

Thanks Yashodha, however I do want a Drupal registration for the profile. 

This option seems to allow a contact to be created, however I would still like to have a Drupal user created with the email address as the username.  I would hope that eventually Civi could provide an option to allow an email address as the username instead of asking for a username in the future.

I am facing the same issue, and have posted over here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,30406.0.html.

Donald, could you elaborate on how one can use jquery to do this?

Thanks,
Rohit