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Configure form widgets

You populate forms with content using form widgets. Form widgets are added on the form the same way regular widgets are added on a page. For more information, see Add widgets on pages and templates.

When you open a form to edit its content, the following list of form widgets appear on the right of the page, when you click the Content button:

form widgets

After you have dragged a widget in the form, click the Edit button in the upper-right corner of the widget to configure it. Note that the Submit button widget is automatically added by the system when you drop the first widget in the form. You

Adding custom widgets to the forms toolbox

If the build-in Sitefinity CMS form widgets do not meet your requirements, you can create and use custom widgets. If you have a custom form widget that you want to use in Sitefinity CMS, you must first register the widget in the toolbox.

For more information, see Configure form widgets.
This section contains:
  • Textbox
    Use this widget to give the user the opportunity to enter free text no longer than a line, such as street address, e-mail, etc
  • Checkboxes
    Use this widget to ask the user a question and give the user the opportunity to select one or more of the predefined answers.
  • Multiple choice
    Use this widget to ask the user a question and give the user the opportunity to select only one out of several predefined answers.
  • Paragraph box
    Use this widget to give the user the opportunity to enter free text longer than one line, such as customer feedback.
  • Dropdown list
    Use this widget to ask the user a question and give the user the opportunity to select only one of many predefined answers.
  • Section header
    Use this widget to display form or section headings.
  • Instructional text
    Use this widget to display instructions and explanatory text for the entire form or for a particular part of the form.
  • File upload
    Use this widget to give the user the possibility to upload one or more file attachments to the form.
  • Submit button
    Use this widget to display the button that the user uses to submit the form.
  • Validate the user input
    You can add validation of the user input in textboxes and paragraph boxes.

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