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One of my users complains she can’t fill out the comments form on a blog post without entering the url field (which is not required).

Attached is a screen shot of the problem. From what I see it’s Chrome (latest version, windows) interupting the submitting. It probably thinks the “http://” is not a valid url so it won’t submit.

If she deletes the “http://”, Chrome has no problem submitting the form.

Here’s the code I used in my template for the comment form:

<label for="url">Website:</label> <input class="text" type="url" autocapitalize="off" name="url" value="{url}" size="50" />

How can I fix this problem? Can I remove the pre-filled http:// and what happens if users then submit an url such as

<a href="http://www.myblog.com">http://www.myblog.com</a>

? Will it break the link?

bytte,

You can just remove the value in your input like so

<label for="url">Website:</label>
<input class="text" type="url" autocapitalize="off" name="url" value="" size="50" />

Let us know if that works for you

Thanks John, but then it won’t be pre-filled with cookie data if a user entered his url on my site before?

Hi bytte,

You are using an HTML5 form element, that being type=“url”. Having a value of value=”{url}” in the input defaults to “http://” for non-logged in members. Chrome then forces you to either enter a URL, or remove the http://.

There are two ways around this.

One, is you change the input type from “url” to just a regular “text” input. Chrome won’t interfere with it.

The other option is to do as John said and remove the value of the input. To address your issue of pre-populating the field for returning visitors, you can utilize the {if logged_out} conditional.

For members, ExpressionEnigne already knows their emails and other data, therefore these fields are not required to be displayed to them.

So, you can display the URL, email, and name inputs to logged_out members, and just have the comment textarea for logged_in members as EE already knows the other values.

Hope this clarifies.

Thanks.

Thanks. Great help!

Awesome bytte!

Glad you got everything taken care of! Please feel free to post again as needed.

Thanks!