Hidden form fields not included in email

FAQ > I get emails containing codes such as [foobar]. What’s this? I want to see the user’s input.

Hi Takayuki, thanks for the reply.

Any idea why adding “hidden” is causing it not to work? Again, the values come through unless I add hidden. Possible bug, or … ?

Thanks!

Everything is explained in the FAQ. Read it first.

In your case, you don’t have your-name and your-email fields in the form. Whether “hidden” or not doesn’t matter.

Hi again! I’m very sorry, but I don’t understand your response or how the FAQ relates. It literally works when I remove “hidden” from my form code.

So, to be explicit, this works (values come through in email):

[email your-email default:get]

[text your-name default:get]

[countrytext countrytext-235]

[checkbox checkbox-1 use_label_element "..."]

[checkbox checkbox-2 use_label_element "..."]

[submit "Submit"]

And this doesn’t (email content says “[your-email]”, “[your-name], [countrytext-235]”):

[hidden email your-email default:get]

[hidden text your-name default:get]

[countrytext countrytext-235]

[checkbox checkbox-1 use_label_element "..."]

[checkbox checkbox-2 use_label_element "..."]

[submit "Submit"]

Also, I perhaps should have mentioned (though implied by the code), I am using URL parameters for the default:get values, e.g.:

[email protected]&your-name=Testing%20Testing

Which again, works perfectly when using the top form code.

So maybe I need some help understanding the “why” behind this—or maybe now that I’ve shared further information we can identify if this is a bug, or if I am misusing the syntax. Why would *only* removing “hidden” cause it to not work, specifically (this is definitely the case)?

Thanks again! I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it. All the best. ??

PS – Here are some screen shots of the emails that came in (1 = no hidden argument; 2 = hidden argument):

See How tags work

Hello! I think the form tags I have shared look correct(?); I have the type, field name, and value. E.g.:

[email your-email default:get]

Perhaps you can share where my mistake is?

Still quite confused! Haha, thanks again. ??</img>

PS – I didn’t share my mail tags in this ticket, as they work without hidden… but here is my Mail tab content for thoroughness:

From: [your-name]

Email: [your-email]

Country: [countrytext-235]

Answer 1: [checkbox-1]

Answer 2: [checkbox-2]


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This e-mail was sent from a contact form on [_site_title] ([_site_url])

Hi Takayuki, just following up as I’m still not able to resolve this. Thanks so much.

Kindly.

Hello, just following up. I apologize, I was not able to understand your responses in regards to my issues. I don’t see any issues with my implementation (perhaps you can correct me). Thanks again!