Contact form can be used to receive messages.
Various methods and providers are supported. You can use Netlify’s form service, formspree or a custom endpoint.
NOTE: If netlify
variable is set to true then value of post_url
will be dismissed since Contact fragment can send the data to a single endpoint only.
This fragment uses internationalized text snippets. Customize them in the fragment or in your own i18n/
website directory.
Contributions for translations are welcome.
Events
This fragment uses the Events api by default.
Subscribers
This event is not published by any fragment by default. But you can make use of
it through event urls.
name
type: string
Fills the name input.
email
type: string
Fills the email input.
phone
type: string
Fills the phone input.
message
type: string
Fills the message input.
Variables
type: string
default: contact-form-{{ file_name }}
Unique name for the form used to identify the form in scripts and on the page.
post_url
type: string
URL to your own backend or a service you are using.
email
type: string
Email used in case of error or if javascript is not available for a functioning contact form.
button_text
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultButton
Submit button text of the form.
netlify
type: boolean
default: false
Setting netlify to true
will enable Netlify’s form handling and it will override any post_url
configuration.
Using the Netlify form service simplifies form handling. Enable it and submissions should be showing up in your Netlify interface. It includes spam prevention including reCaptcha usage and can be connected to various triggers such as email, slack and more.
NOTE: Your website needs to be hosted on Netlify to take advantage of this.
recaptcha
type: object
default: Not set
In the case post_url
is used a reCaptcha can be added to the form by setting recaptcha to true
and providing a recaptcha.sitekey
.
This reduces spam submissions to your contact form.
recaptcha.sitekey
type: string
Your specific Google reCaptcha sitekey generated within the recaptcha dashboard.
message
type: object
These messages would be shown after submission in case of an error or success.
message.success
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultGenericSuccess
message.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultGenericError
fields
type: Object of objects
Each object defined under fields
will be added to the form. You can remove any of the fields and they would not appear.
fields.name
fields.name.text
type: string
fields.name.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultNameError
fields.email
fields.email.text
type: string
fields.email.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultEmailError
fields.phone
fields.phone.text
type: string
fields.phone.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultPhoneError
fields.message
fields.message.text
type: string
fields.message.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultButton
fields.hidden
type: Array of objects
You can use this array to add new hidden fields to the form.
fields.hidden.name
type: string
This field can have any value and it would be registered in the form with the custom value you provide, unless the value is one of the following:
site
: If the name of the hidden field is set to site, value
is overridden with permalink of the current page.page
: value
would be overridden with URL of the current page.
Any other value for the name
variable in the fields.hidden
object will have normal behavior and will not affect the value
variable.
fields.hidden.value
type: string
Value of the hidden field. This field will be overridden if name
is set to site
or page
.
Global variables are documented as well and have been omitted from this page.
fields.custom
type: array of objects
This array is used to define custom inputs. These inputs are displayed in addition to the default inputs of the contact form.
fields.custom.name
type: string
fields.custom.text
type: string
fields.custom.error
type: string
default: i18n contact.defaultError
fields.custom.required
type: boolean
fields.custom.validation
type: boolean, string
accepted values: email, regex
Applies validation rules to the input. If not set or set to false, no validation will be applied.
fields.custom.validation_regex
type: string
In case fields.custom.validation
is set to regex
, you can specify the regex here.