# Text before form field

**URL:** <https://community.gravityforms.com/t/text-before-form-field/11430>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** custom, madlibs, html-field, gravity-wiz, conversational-forms\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/text-before-form-field/11430 "2021-12-15T14:14:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![user61a392bd2c70b763](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b19c9b/32.png) [@user61a392bd2c70b763](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/user61a392bd2c70b763)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/text-before-form-field/11430/1 "2021-12-15T14:14:42Z")

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Hi,

I wanted to add some text before/after my form field. Example:

My name is **[single line text field]** and I’m working as a **[dropdown field]**.

or

My business was founded in **[dropdown field]**.

I thought about putting the different form field into a html form field. How can I implement this (shortcodes to a form field are probably not going to work)? Is there a better solution (also from Gravity Wiz)?

Kind regards,  
M

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**Author:** ![chrishajer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.gravityforms.com/chrishajer/32/88_2.png) [@chrishajer](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/chrishajer)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/text-before-form-field/11430/2 "2021-12-15T17:23:40Z")

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Hi MB. It’s not currently possible to configure a form from the form builder to work like that. That style form is sometimes called a Madlib form and sometimes a conversational form. We have an open feature request with the product team to release a conversational style form, but that is not available now.

We did have a writeup on our website a few years ago about an approach to creating a madlib-style form. It’s off the website now, but is available in the Internet archive, here:

[http://web.archive.org/web/20111222185227/https://www.rocketgenius.com/gravity-forms-mad-lib-style-form-demo/](http://web.archive.org/web/20111222185227/https://www.rocketgenius.com/gravity-forms-mad-lib-style-form-demo/)

Maybe that will give you some ideas on how to approach this. I’ll leave this open in case anyone else has an idea that can help with this. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/gravityforms1/original/2X/f/fef63f0599c45e0218c30d9f5d7ca8bff9b00189.png) [@system](https://community.gravityforms.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.gravityforms.com/t/text-before-form-field/11430/3 "2022-01-14T17:23:59Z")

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