Author Topic: Here's how to add attributes to form elements (Read 300 times)

publicradio · October 21, 2014, 10:40:26 am

Hi, I was able to sort this out, thanks to a helpful member of CiviCRM's IRC chat room, so I wanted to share this solution here, in case anyone needs it.

Say you have a form on a contribution page, and you want HTML5 placeholders in the fields. Well, you can create a new extension, install it, and in it use a function like this:

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function client_civicrm_buildForm($formName, &$form) {
	if($formName == 'CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_Main' && $form->getVar('_id') == 15) {
		$form->updateElementAttr('street_address-3',array('placeholder' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'));
	}
}

Where 'client' is the name of your extension and 'street_address-3' is the id of your form field.

publicradio · October 21, 2014, 02:21:32 pm

also: when you have a select dropdown, the default option says '-select-'. If you want to change this, you can use this code:

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		if ($form->elementExists('country-3')) {
			$e = $form->getElement('country-3');
			$e->_options[0]['text'] = 'zzz';
	    }

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Author Topic: Here's how to add attributes to form elements (Read 300 times)

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