Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On
This plugin adds Placeholder support to gravity forms
4.3(12 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On is a WordPress placeholder plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders.
4.3/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
20K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
NOTE
The plugin is based off of the placeholder support add-on initially developed by neojp and can be found at the link below. The main
difference being that we added support for drop-down fields.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/
This plugin gives support for placeholders to the Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin.
In order to use the plugin you need only add the class of \”gf-add-placeholder\” to any of the fields you wish to have a placeholder on.
The plugin will take the text of the label and then hide said label and apply the text from the label to the placeholder attribute.
If you would like to to use this on your entire form then you need only add the \”gf-add-placeholder\” class to the form itself and then it will be applied to all the f…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works great
by radmkt·10 years ago
Works great, have never had any issue.
Very useful
by Runtheball·11 years ago
Puts form labels right where they belong.
Works great
by doodlz·11 years ago·2 replies
Great plugin that works as expected. The best option out there for this functionality.
However, I would like to second @bamajr’s suggestion that there should be a way to hide the “Required Field” asterisk in placeholders, even if the field is required.
Works Exactly As Advertised!
by Toby Cryns (@themightymo)·11 years ago
This plugin worked like a charm for me! Thanks!
Great plugin
by BzCosy·11 years ago
Works Well
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 6This week: 28Period total: 791
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0
Moved the call for the jquery to the footer
Binded the call to the placeholder function to the gform_post_render so that it will reinitialize on form errors.
Contributors
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