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Only show required fields on signup form

@peterverkooijen

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

This has probably been asked a million times, but I can’t find it: Is there a built-in way to only show the required fields on the initial signup form and leave the rest for the profile editing form?

What’s the best way to hide the non-required fields? I’ll now resort to CSS trickery…

EDIT: Running into problems with CSS trickery. I can hide the input fields using their ID’s (“field_3” etc.), but then I still get the labels. The labels only have this:

<label class="signup-label" for="field_3">

Can I somehow use that “for=” in CSS?

I can’t hide the whole signup-field block, because field_1 and field_2 are required. I can’t hack CSS id’s or classes into core files, because the labels and inputs are generated by script.

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

15 years, 4 months ago
You could use jQuery to select the “for” attribute so you can hide it.

Read up on jQuery selectors:

http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/attributeEquals

Try this:
```
<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){

$("label[for='field_3']").css({'display' : 'none'});

});

</script>
```
You’ll need to have the jQuery library somewhere in your HTML source.
@peterverkooijen

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

Thanks r-a-y!

I like jQuery. I already use it for several other things, so this looks like a good solution.

I hope a more built-in solution will be added to coming versions of Buddypress.

@nicolagreco

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

Yep. jQuery is a good solution, but the code is ever in the page, with that code the label you don’t want is hidden, so it’s still in the page.

Then, it depends if it satisfate you

@peterverkooijen

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

I can live with in this case, but let us know if you have a better solution.

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