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revasie
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February 10, 2021
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Creating Form templates with CSS

  • February 10, 2021
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Hello everyone, can you create a form template with custom CSS so that when you update the CSS of the template, the rest of the forms get updated too? OR is it the same w/t the LP and email assets - changes to the template don't over-write existing and approved assets? 

 

Thanks in advance! 🤗

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Katja_Keesom
Community Manager
February 10, 2021

A form does not really have a template like an email or a landing page. You get around that by using Global forms. In other words, you set up 1 form in Design studio and in your marketing programs you always use that 1 single form. That means the CSS styling as well as field settings can be managed in one single place rather than having to update umpty individual forms scattered across all your programs. Of course you can create multiple Global forms in Design Studio for different use cases (like a separate event form and contact us form), but the concept stays the same.

That means that only in very exceptional use cases where you need very specific fields on a form you would create one directly inside your marketing program.

revasie
revasieAuthor
New Participant
February 10, 2021

Thanks for your answer! Didn't realise that referring to Global Forms as 'templates' is incorrect! We'll test this today, to see how changes in the CSS reflect on forms, which are part of programmes. 🦄

SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
February 10, 2021
Note you can also have your CSS in a standard external CSS file and include that. Then updates to that file in Design Studio (or wherever you host it) reflect immediately on all forms referencing that file.