website input doesn't work without https://

It’s the way it works… If you select “Website” in Field’s type, you are using an HTML5 input with url type. This input requires a valid website url and this require “https://”.

If you don’t want to require https://, you have to use a “Text box”.

If I use a text box, then the URL wont link to another site.

I understand that it’s the way you’ve built it, but it causes problems with other ways of typing in websites. From a user’s perspective: It would be better if it was missing the ‘https://’ to add it, rather than display an error message.

Hi,

You can use a filter to create the url if you want.

You don’t understand. I have not built it. The website html5 input is a web standard from W3C. It’s impossible to change… It’s how the field type “url” works… The “https://” is required for this type of field.

Hi Donmik,

Thanks for that, wasn’t aware of that standard particular standard.

Do you mean build a filter to automatically add the https://, or turn the text into a link?

In the faq, I explain how to create filter to change the way the value of fields are displayed.