JQuery to auto populate form? Possible?

I am working on a two-step form and want to send info from the initial form to the second for it to be more conversational.

The first form (ex. www.website.com/contact/) collects name, email, and why you're contacting us. (ex. select: hire us, job openings...etc.). Upon submitting, it validates the data and sends the user to the appropriate second form (ex. www.website.com/contact/jobs?fname=John&lname=Doe&email=john.doe@website.com). I have this working.

Next, I am using Jquery to grab the URL params and set the name and email fields so the user doesn't have to do this again. To do this, I am using something like this:

var firstName = urlParams.get('fname') );

$( 'input[name="fname"]' ).attr('value', firstName).val( firstName );

This works. However, when you click submit, the name and email fields are cleared and marked as an error.

Am I chasing something that is not possible due to form security?

I used HTML to pre-populate some data in a SS form, this was achieved using getelementID and setting the value of that text area/box. This code block still works BUT the second I click Submit, the data is deleted from the form.

What's changed and is there a workaround?

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4 hours ago, howharvey said:

I used HTML to pre-populate some data in a SS form, this was achieved using getelementID and setting the value of that text area/box. This code block still works BUT the second I click Submit, the data is deleted from the form.

What's changed and is there a workaround?

Share website URL. I will check it out issue.

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Sorry, should have explained better... this issue only has existed since the rollout of the new "forms block". I can set values with JS within a form, but on submit those fields get cleared.

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this issue only has existed since the rollout of the new "forms block". I can set values with JS within a form, but on submit those fields get cleared.

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