How do I make Country Dropdown a required field in CF7 form

Here’s my code for your examination.

I’ve shortened the list of countries for brevity’s sake.

<p>First Name (required) [text* FNAME id:firstname]</p>  Last Name (required) [text* LNAME id:lastname]</p>
<p>Email (required) [email* EMAIL id:email] </p>
<p>
    <label>Country: (required)</label>
    <select name="country" class="required"> [dropdown* COUNTRY id:country]
        <option value="Select One">Select One</option>
        <option value="United States of America">United States of America</option>
        <option value="Aaland Islands">Aaland Islands</option>
        <option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option>
        <option value="Albania">Albania</option>
        <option value="Algeria">Algeria</option>
        <option value="American Samoa">American Samoa</option>
        <option value="Yemen">Yemen</option>
        <option value="Zambia">Zambia</option>
        <option value="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</option>
    </select>
</p>
[mc4wp_checkbox "Add me to Kevin's mailing list"]

<p>Subject [text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message [textarea your-message] </p>

[recaptcha]

<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Le1bRETAAAAAAQcZyu9wZZbQkqwMbHdLlWkXzEM"></div>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

• For a required drop-down menu, use select* form-tag.
• To include long countries list into drop-down menu options, you can use Listo plugin.
• I’m the author of the plugin, but I haven’t heard about those tags seen in your form: [dropdown* COUNTRY id:country] and [mc4wp_checkbox "Add me to Kevin's mailing list"]. What are they?
• You put a reCAPTCHA widget redundantly. Remove <div class="g-recaptcha" ...></div>.

Dear Takayuki,
I’m blind and hope I spelled your name correctly. the fact is, I truly don’t understand HTML or WordPress beyond the most basic level. Most of what I am capable of comes from simply copying and pasting code in the hope that it will perform as expected. Would you be willing to take the code example above and paste in the corrections so that it performs as expected? Your help would be tremendously appreciated. Where would I find your plugin? What does it do? Respectfully, could you explain exactly what your plugin’s purpose is with respect to making a country dropdown list a required field?

thank you for responding and I hope you can help.

Best,
Kevjazz

Dear Takayuki,

The tags you didn’t recognize are related to a e-mail marketing service called Mail Chimp. They are supposed to grab the data from the CF7 form and import it into our mailing list if the user elects to become a subscriber. Unfortunately, I’m not able to get this functionality working either. But that is a task for a separate thread. Again, if you’re willing to show me a complete code example based on the code I’ve provided, it would be extremely helpful.

Best,
Kevjazz

Replace the <select>...</select> with this tag:

[select* country data:countries first_as_label "Select One"]

Then install the Listo plugin.

That’s all.

Dear Takayuki,

My wife figured it out. thanks so much for being so helpful. We will definitely download your plug. this website is currently being built behind the scenes. When it goes live, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Best,
kevjazz

@kevjazz – Glad you solved your problem. If this resolves your question, it helps others contributing here, if you can flag your post as [resolved].

Thanks to everyone’s help, and my wife’s persistence, we now have the country dropdown working and the data porting to Mail Chimp.

thanks again,
kevjazz

Hi,

Great. All countries will get listed by Listo Plugin. But What about the States of each country? Can we do like After selecting the country, states related to that country been listed automatically? Please help me with this.