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Where is this text coming from and how to I change it?

by jleavitt13
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  • WEB DESIGN
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My website is: Love First Parenting

The opt-in form at the bottom of the homepage is something I just added, customized a mailchimp embed form to do it. My question is, when you click the subscribe button without filling out the email field, there is an alert text the pops up, and I want to be able to change this text. I honestly do not know if this is coming from MailChimp or what, but I have checked all of my css and I dont have a clue where this message originates from or where to go to change it.

Any advice would be great!
#change #coming #text
  • Profile picture of the author vjboc
    What file did you place the code in? Is it a script? If it is, you need to edit it at MailChimp.
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    • Profile picture of the author jleavitt13
      Originally Posted by vjboc View Post

      What file did you place the code in? Is it a script? If it is, you need to edit it at MailChimp.
      I placed the code straight into the wordpress page
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  • Profile picture of the author PromoDirect
    I am sure this is from the MailChimp client. You will find an option there to change the text in the popup.
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  • Profile picture of the author jumpa
    Hi, Joshua, it is a nice and cool design website.
    as far as I know this word come from javascript

    i put example below [this is from another autoresponder service, but i think the principle is the same]


    <script language="JavaScript">
    function checkSub(){
    if (document.signup.email.value.indexOf('@', 0) == -1) {
    alert("Please fill in your valid Email address.\nYour email should be in the following format: email@address.com")
    document.signup.email.focus()
    return false}
    if (document.signup.fname.value == "") {
    alert("Please fill in your First name.")
    document.signup.fname.focus()
    return false}
    }</script>


    there is
    "Please fill in your First name" and
    "Please fill in your valid Email address.\nYour email should be in the following format: email@address.com"

    may be you will find in your autoresponder script
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    what they said, its embedded inside the mailchip plugin itself somewhere..

    I just wanted to say, awesome site, love the topic
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    • Profile picture of the author jleavitt13
      Originally Posted by webpeon View Post

      what they said, its embedded inside the mailchip plugin itself somewhere..

      I just wanted to say, awesome site, love the topic
      Originally Posted by jumpa View Post

      Hi, Joshua, it is a nice and cool design website.
      Thanks for the good remarks on the side! And Thanks for the advice. I was not able to find it in the script, so it must be somewhere on the Mailchimp side of things. Here is the code I am using for the bottom section of my home page, maybe you guys can see something I can not.


      <div style="margin-top:-25px;">
      <center><span style="font-size:24px;">Discover a New Style of Parenting</span></center>
      <!-- Begin MailChimp Signup Form -->
      <link href="http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/slim-081711.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

      <center>
      <div style="margin-top:-51px;">
      <form action="http://lovefirstparenting.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=f6e712e62c69ecb3c4bda8723&amp;id=f152a2adb4 " method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank">


      <table >
      <tr>
      <td style="padding:30px;">
      <div style="margin-top:-15px;"><input size="25" type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="email" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="Enter email address here" required></div>
      </td>
      <td style="padding:30px;">
      <div class="clear"><input type="image" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button" onmouseover="this.src='http://www.lovefirstparenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opt-in-over.png';" onmouseout="this.src='http://www.lovefirstparenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opt-in.png';" src="http://www.lovefirstparenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opt-in.png" alt="Subscribe"></div>
      </td>
      <td style="padding:30px;">
      <div style="margin-top:-15px;"><center><span style="font-size:16px; font-style:italic;">Free Content & Newsletters, </span></center></div>
      <br /><div style="margin-top:-17px;"><center><span style="font-size:16px; font-style:italic;">No Obligation, Just Opportunity</span></center></div>

      </td>
      </tr>
      </table>
      </form>
      </div>
      </center>
      </div>
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  • Profile picture of the author vjboc
    By the looks of the code, There is nothing you will be able to edit from your file. There is a chance that it is not editable. I would go to MailChimp and contact them and see if they can give you some insight. I hope you are able to figure it out. Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author jleavitt13
    Spent a long time chatting with the people at MailChimp.... Turns out that I can change anything, and neither can they. They said that its being pulled from the default css in the browser program. If you look at it in chrome vs firefox it looks completely different and in Safari is does not even work.

    This is really really weird to me, never thought about this type of thing before... oh well, thanks for the advice guys.
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  • Profile picture of the author jumpa
    Hi,

    Ithink the message come from your browser, because i try with

    - chrome, the message show in another language (my language setting, bahasa
    indonesia)
    - i try with safari and ie7, the message not show and i go to next page
    - with firefox, show message "please fill out this field.
    - with opera, not show any message, and not go to next page

    when i try to deleted word "required" from this code:
    <div style="margin-top:-15px;"><input size="25" type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="email" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="Enter email address here" required></div>

    i can go to next page for all the browser
    that s my experience
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    the only way to even come close to changing the text is to add in some java code which will change it for you at display time, the only downside to doing this is if the user viewing the message doesnt have java enabled they'll still get the original message
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    • Profile picture of the author jleavitt13
      Originally Posted by webpeon View Post

      the only way to even come close to changing the text is to add in some java code which will change it for you at display time, the only downside to doing this is if the user viewing the message doesnt have java enabled they'll still get the original message
      That seems to be the case. Thank you for the response. It is appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author jleavitt13
      Originally Posted by Sunyakram View Post

      you need to edit it at MailChimp
      thanks for that...
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