Back to Webforms: Adding the Email Element Video
welcome in this part of the web porn
video series we're going to talk about
how to add the email element
to your web forms um a lot of folks will
want to be able to add this because it
allows users to a
plug in their email address into a field
that validates the formatting of the
email to make sure it's an actual email
address and not just
some random stuff they put in there and
b
it'll allow you to do special things
like setting up submission notifications
send out notification emails
to the users who plug in their their
email addresses
into that email field so what we'll do
is we're going to go to our web form in
this case i'm going to modify my golden
ticket request form
and we're going to click on build
and then we're going to add a new
element
in this case we're looking for the email
element it's going to be
down here right below the advanced
element section
right here you can also search for it
too if you really want to if you just
type email
it'll pop right up and so we're going to
go ahead and go to email
and click add element
and the first thing we'll do is give it
a title usually email suffices
and there's a bunch of options here to
be able to add you know help
descriptions and stuff but usually the
email feel is pretty self-explanatory so
i'm not i don't really feel the need to
add any of that stuff
you can adjust things like the
inline display whether you want the tile
to display in line or above the field or
whatever
we're going to go ahead and close that
i'll show you what the defaults look
like
but i probably do want this to be
required i want to make sure that
whoever's filling this out
has some accountability puts in their
email address allows me to reach out
back to them later
so i'm going to go ahead and check that
i might put a little message here
and then click save
now adding any new fields is going to
put that
element to the very bottom of the list
so i'm going to go ahead and drag this
in the order i want it to appear in this
case right below the name field
i'm going to save elements so i save
that order
and then we can view and so you'll see
here
email is right there if i try typing in
something that doesn't work
it won't let me go through
you'll see here it gives me an error
message so this is why it's useful to
use
that email field so anyways that is
in short how you add the email element
to your web forms