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title: Rich Text Input Field in Fluent Forms
description: "The **Rich Text Input Field** allows users to submit text with formatting options like **bold, italics, underline,**and**more**. It also enables users to submit their forms with rich text content. This guide will walk you through adding and customizing the **Rich…"
url: "https://fluentforms.com/docs/rich-text-input-field-in-fluent-forms/"
updated: "2025-06-03"
category: Field Types / Advance Fields
---

# Rich Text Input Field in Fluent Forms

The **Rich Text Input Field** allows users to submit text with formatting options like **bold, italics, underline,**and**more**. It also enables users to submit their forms with rich text content.

This guide will walk you through adding and customizing the **Rich Text Input** field in Fluent Forms.

> The **Rich Text Input** field is an advanced feature of the Fluent Forms plugin. To use it, you require the **[Fluent Forms Pro Add-on](https://fluentforms.com/docs/how-to-upgrade-to-fluent-forms-pro/)**.

## Adding a Rich Text Input Field

To learn how to add the **Rich Text Input Field** to Fluent Forms, follow the steps below:

First, go to the **Forms** section from the Fluent Forms Navbar, choose a desired form, and click the **Edit** icon to open the Editor page of that form.

> If you do not have any existing forms, read[Create a Form from Scratch](https://fluentforms.com/docs/how-to-create-a-form-with-fluent-forms/) or[Create a Form using Templates](https://fluentforms.com/docs/using-and-customizing-pre-built-quick-forms-in-fluent-forms/) documentation to create a new one. 

![Form Edit 01 2 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Form-Edit-01-2-scaled.webp)

Once on the **Editor** page, click the **Plus Icon** in your form editor and open the **Advanced Fields** module. You can also find this option in the right sidebar under the **Input Fields** tab.

Now, select the **Rich Text Input** field by clicking or dragging it and dropping it into your editor.

![Adding Rich Text 02 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Adding-Rich-Text-02-scaled.webp)

## Customizing the Rich Text Input Field

Once you add the **Rich Text Input** field, you can customize it by hovering over it and clicking the **Pencil Icon**. It will take you to the **Input Customization** tab on the right, which offers the following customization options.

- Rich Text Field Options
- Advanced Options

![Input Customization 03 29 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Input-Customization-03-29-scaled.webp)

### Rich Text Field Options

Under the Input Customization tab, you will find various settings options for customizing the field. These options allow you to configure essential aspects of the **Rich Text Input**field.

All the settings under the **Rich Text Input Field** mentioned above are briefly explained below-

**A. Element Label:** This is the field title the users will see when filling out the **Rich Text Input**field in a form. You can enter any text here to help users understand the purpose of the field.

**B. Label Placement:** This option allows you to determine the position of the label title where the user will see it. The available options are **Top**, **Left**, **Right**, and **Default**. All of those are self-explanatory except the Default. 

**C. Admin Field Label:** The admin field label is a field title displayed only to admin users. You can configure this option to show a different field label for your admin users when they view the form submissions.

**D. Placeholder:**When the input field is empty, a message is usually shown to the users so they can understand what the field expects from them. This is the equivalent of the HTML input placeholder attribute. 

**E. Rows:** You can choose a certain number of **rows,**and you need to implement them.

**F. Columns:**You can choose a certain number of **columns,** and you need to implement them.

**G. Required:** Decide whether users must select at least one option before submission.

![Rich Text Input 04 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Rich-Text-Input-04-scaled.webp)

### Advanced Options

Advanced settings allow further customization to meet specific use cases. All the **Settings** under the **Advanced Options**tab mentioned in the screenshot are briefly explained below –

**A. Default Value:** Using our shortcodes, you can manually set any fixed value in your field and pre-filled your input field dynamically. To better understand Dynamic Default Value, [read this article.](https://fluentforms.com/docs/dynamic-default-value-in-fluent-forms/) You can add the default value by **Shortcode** from the right side.

**B. Container Class:** Use this option to add your custom CSS classes to the field’s wrapper.

**C. Element Class:**Add custom CSS classes to the input field.

**D. Help Message:**This option allows you to guide your user thoroughly. Add your text here, which will be shown as a help message to the user.

**E. Name Attribute:** The input field’s name attribute is the HTML equivalent of the same name. You don’t need to modify this.

**F. Max text length:**Limit the maximum number of characters a user can enter.

**G. Conditional Logic:**This option allows you to create specific rules to dynamically hide/show the input field to function conditionally based on your submission values according to your set of conditional logics. To learn more, read this [Documentation](https://fluentforms.com/docs/set-up-forms-with-conditional-logic-in-fluent-forms/). 

![Advanced options 05 21 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Advanced-options-05-21-scaled.webp)

## Embed the Form into Frontend

Once you complete the customization, click the **Save** **Form** button to save all your changes. Click the **Preview & Design**buttonin the middle to see the form preview.

To integrate and display the form on a specific page or post, **copy** the **Shortcode** from the top right side and **paste** it into your desired **Page or Post**. 

![Save Form 06 27 scaled 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Save-Form-06-27-scaled.webp)

## Preview of Added Rich Text Field

Here is the preview of the added **Rich Text**field under the Form. 

![Preview 07 18 49832](https://fluentforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Preview-07-18.webp)

Congratulations! You have successfully added a Rich Text field to your Fluent Forms form.

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