When I copy/paste the code from an Active Campaign form (using full embed) into my page, I want to edit the email input field so instead of using this: <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Type your email" required/>
I want to change the input type to email, like this: <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Type your email" required/>
I just brought this up to our product team, and they are going to take a look at rolling this out to production. I would also encourage you to submit this feedback to them as well so that they can take a look at it - https://ideas.activecampaign.com/ideas/new
I’ll do my best to circle back and take a look at the js validation that breaks when you update the input field as well.
Any updates on this? I attempted to tweak some of the javascript, but it fails… I’m not really a javascript programmer, so I’m just hacking around in the dark, lol.
I’m also interested in this. “Text” is the wrong type for an email field, causing unnecessary difficulty for the users and a higher likelihood of typos in their email address. Any news?
I did look into hacking the forms, and it is a bit more complicated than I initially thought, since the server is expecting a text field as opposed to an email one. My best recommendation would be to tap into our API if you needed something for this right away.
Otherwise just make sure that you have submitted ideas so that the product team can take a look.
I have submitted it as an idea. TBH, it’s kind of shocking that an established autoresponder company is still using the wrong field type for email opt-in forms. In our case, virtually 100% of our users are on mobile, so this is a big issue for us. Hope to see it fixed soon.
I guess I thought the main problem was updating the javascript so that it tests the email type field instead of the text type field for the email validation.
If the server is expecting a text input type, maybe the javascript could also change the input type back to text once the validation is done? And maybe then, in case javascript is off, the input type should start as text, and when the js loads, it should change it to email (for mobile) and then back again when the form is submitted. So the email field’s type would actually change from TEXT --> EMAIL --> TEXT. I’m not positive that the mobile devices would detect the change and behave appropriately, but I imagine they would.
I don’t have quite enough js ability to pull this off, but there must be a way to do it from my Google results here and here.
