Bit Form – Country field

Country Field in Bit Form is a pre-built form field that allows users to select or input the country names as part of a form submission. This field is designed to capture the geographical location information of users, specifically their country of origin. The Country field provides a dropdown list of countries for users to select from, making it easy for them to specify their country when filling out a form.

⚙ General Settings

1. Field Key

In Bit Form, every field has a special identifier known as a Field Key. This field key uniquely identifies a field, it also helps to send data via email, PDF, store database, and PHP action hook. These keys are important in Success/Error Messages, WebHooks, Redirect Pages, Email Templates, Workflows, and Integrations.

2. Name

The Name is an HTML equivalent input field’s name, you can customize it easily according to your preferences. You can easily modify it to suit your needs.

A field’s name is like a special label used when you submit a form. For example, let’s say the field name is “text-1-5”. In this case, ‘text’ tells us the type of field it is, ‘1’ refers to the form ID, and ‘5’ means it’s the fifth-number field on the form. This field name can be used for various purposes such as Fetch data from url parameter.

3. Field Label

You can set a proper name for the field that is considered a field label. This label name will appear on the front end of the form you will display. You can hide the field label if you want.

1. Adding Leading and Trailing Icons: The leading and trailing icon option allows you to add a symbol or image at the beginning (leading) or end (trailing) of the field label. With Bit Form, you can access over 10,000 icons from various open-source libraries and upload a custom icon to suit your specific needs.

4. Subtitle

The subtitle is an additional piece of text that appears below the label of a field in a form. It offers further clarification or context to help visitors understand the purpose of the field.

1. Adding Leading and Trailing Icons: The leading and trailing icon option allows you to add a symbol or image at the beginning (leading) or end (trailing) of the subtitle. With Bit Form, you can access over 10,000 icons from various open-source libraries and upload a custom icon to suit your specific needs.

5. Admin Label

This field is designated for administrative use and allows an administrator to set a label name that will be displayed on the responses page.

6. Size & Position

It typically refers to the dimensions and placement of an input or output field within a user interface. It specifies the width and position, x-position, and w-width of the field on the screen or page.

7. Required

The Required Field option allows you to make a form field mandatory for the user to fill out. You can also specify an error message to be displayed if the field is left blank. With the “Custom Error Message” option, you have the flexibility to customize the error message according to your needs. Additionally, you can add Leading and Trailing Icons to the error message for better visual representation.

1. Adding Leading and Trailing Icons: The leading and trailing icon option allows you to add a symbol or image at the beginning (leading) or end (trailing) of the error message. With Bit Form, you can access over 10,000 icons from various open-source libraries and upload a custom icon to suit your specific needs.
2. Asterisk Position: The asterisk symbol position indicating a required field can be set with this option. You can choose to display it before or after the field label and on the right or left side of the field.

8. Placeholder

A Placeholder is a property by which the user can understand the usage of the field. Any text entered on the placeholder will be displayed on the fields. The placeholder text will disappear when the user starts writing on the field.

9. Helper Text

It offers further clarification or context to help visitors understand the purpose of the field. This option allows you to guide your user on what kind of information should be entered, any restrictions on the input, and any formatting requirements.

1. Adding Leading and Trailing Icons: The leading and trailing icon option allows you to add a symbol or image at the beginning (leading) or end (trailing) of the helper text. It serves as visual cue to help users understand the context of the text. With Bit Form, you can access over 10,000 icons from various open-source libraries and upload a custom icon to suit your specific needs.

10. ReadOnly

The read-only field option makes it possible to show information to visitors without giving them the ability to modify it. Visitors can only view the information and not edit it. This is helpful in cases where you want to display important information that should remain unchanged. By setting the field as read-only, the information remains unaltered and accurate.

11. Disabled

The disables field option disables user input and interaction, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of form data by preventing the visitor from entering or changing any information in the form.

12. Search Placeholder

By this option, the admin can add/edit a search placeholder text for the field. The placeholder text will disappear, and the search results will be displayed.

13. Country Not Found Text

This option allows the admin to customize the text that is displayed when the user searches for a country that is not found. By default, the text displayed is “No Country Found”, but you can modify it to your liking.

14. Country Not Found Text

Enabling this option will display the flag image of the selected country on the left side of the field. If you disable this option, only the name of the selected country will be displayed without any flag image.

15. Selected Country Clearable

This option allows users to clear the selected country from the field. By enabling this option, a small “X” button will appear on the right side of the field, allowing the user to easily remove the selected country. If disabled, the user will not be able to clear the selected country from the field.

16. Search Clearable

This option allows the user to clear the search. There is a small “X” icon within the search box, allowing users to easily clear their search with a single click and start a new one.

17. Option Flag Image

Enabling this option will display the flag image of each country next to its name in the dropdown options. If you disable this option, only the name of each country will be displayed without any flag image.

18. Detect Country By IP

Enabling this option will allow the form to automatically detect the country based on the user’s IP address when the form is loaded.

19. Detect Country By Geo

Enabling this option will automatically detect the user’s country based on the GPS location of their device when the form loads.

20. Hidden

This option allows you to make the field hidden when the form is displayed on the front end.

21. Options List Height

This option allows the administrator to set the maximum height of the dropdown list. By setting a maximum height, the dropdown list will only display a certain number of options at once, and the user will be able to scroll through the remaining options if needed. Administrators can set the height of the options list in pixels (px)

22. Edit Options

This option allows administrators to customize the label and list of countries by adding them as per their requirements. They can also set the default country, disable or hide specific countries in the list, and make other modifications as per their preferences. Also, the admin can reorder the options by Dragging and Drop