Form Select "Other" should open a "please specify" textbox

[marc]

Hi there,

I would like to ask people who sign up on my page how they know about me. I give them a couple of standard answers in a select dropdown. If they select “Other”, a textbox should show up, to allow them to specify how they know about me.

What’s the best way to do that in Webflow?

Thanks so much,
Marc

[coolest_vlad (Vlad Radchenko)]

Try to make the “other” part of the form a text link so when they select it, they can be redirected to another form .

[dL0]

Marc,

How familiar are you with triggers?

You can easily create a textbox on the first form and make it opacity 0%. This will keep the textbox hidden for now. Once we have that established, we can set a trigger on our radio button to once clicked change the textbox opacity to 100% so it is visible for input. Then in case the user miss clicked, we can set the second click of the radio button to return the textbox opacity back to 0%.

Hope that helps. There are video tutorials on how to utilize triggers but if you require direct assistance you can shoot me a message.

Happy Designing,

dL0

[marc]

How does that work? I enter the options that are available to chose from in the right menu and I can only enter plain text there.

[marc]

Hi dL0,

I am familiar with triggers. I would love to use one to show the textbox when the “other” option is selected in the select field. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use this as a trigger.

Let me know if my description is unclear.

[dL0]

Marc,

Please see this quick demo that I made for your purposes. Let me know if I can assist you in any other way.

https://preview.webflow.com/preview/dl0-demo-page?preview=8dda77ebb3223387ea4a19c836f56d79

Happy Webflowing,

dL0

[marc]

Thanks so much for your help. I intended to use a “select” box instead of radio buttons (see picture attached). If it doesnt work with the “select” box I will probably switch to radios.