{"id":38707,"date":"2024-04-30T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/?p=38707"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:33:43","slug":"username","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/username\/","title":{"rendered":"Username"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Username<\/strong> field provides a single line input. It is available under the Advanced Fields section within the form editor and <strong>only when the User Registration add-on is active<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"236\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/username-icon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38709 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Username field as displayed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/form-editor\/#h-the-field-library\">Field Library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/username-field-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38712 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/username-field-1.png 592w, https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/username-field-1-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Username field as displayed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/form-editor\/#h-the-layout-space\">Form Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-common-settings\">Common Settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This field uses only common field settings for the General, Appearance, and Advanced settings. For a description of each common field setting,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/common-field-settings\/\">refer to this article<\/a>. Below is a description of specialty settings that are particular to this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-input-mask\">Input Mask<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Username, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/single-line-text\/\">Single Line Text<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/post-custom\/\">Post Custom Field<\/a>\u00a0are the only fields with the Input Mask setting. You can learn more about input masks in this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/input-mask\/\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-merge-tags\">Merge Tags<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on using merge tags, refer to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/category\/user-guides\/merge-tags-getting-started\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usage\">Usage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The following example would be the merge tag for a Username field labeled as \u201cUsername\u201d, which has id 2 assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">{Username:2}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-modifiers\">Modifiers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This merge tag does not have any modifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Username field provides a single line input and is only available when the User Registration add-on is active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autodraft_ids":[],"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cf_checklist_status":["Content Word Count","Internal Links","Category Assigned"]},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-fields","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Username - Gravity Forms Documentation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Username field provides a single line input. 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