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January 9, 2017
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Prebuild Marketo form in custom HTML?

  • January 9, 2017
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     Not sure if anyone else is having this problem. I'm wondering if it would be possible to prebuild a form using client side HTML markup, and then hook in the Marketo validation and form cookie. I'm trying to avoid the momentary roundtripping / flash that the form does when using the default embed code. I would like the visitor to be presented the form, prebuilt, but then use the Marketo Forms API to submit using the form.

Has anyone tackled/posted about this before?

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

First, please move this question to Products​.  "Community" is for feedback about the Marketo Nation website itself -- and yes, this is confusing.

Anyway, can you do what you're describing? Yes. You can Make a Marketo Form Submission in the background using any custom form.  But using this method for a form that's an exact replica of a Marketo-generated form doesn't make much sense. All you'll be doing is disconnecting yourself from Form Editor changes. Instead, if you want to speed rendering, you can run your forms through a CDN and cache them for, say, a day at the edge.  Or hide the body content until the form is ready: compare this and this.

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January 10, 2017

First, please move this question to Products​.  "Community" is for feedback about the Marketo Nation website itself -- and yes, this is confusing.

Anyway, can you do what you're describing? Yes. You can Make a Marketo Form Submission in the background using any custom form.  But using this method for a form that's an exact replica of a Marketo-generated form doesn't make much sense. All you'll be doing is disconnecting yourself from Form Editor changes. Instead, if you want to speed rendering, you can run your forms through a CDN and cache them for, say, a day at the edge.  Or hide the body content until the form is ready: compare this and this.

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Anonymous
January 10, 2017

Thank you for the direction, Sanford. My initial question has been answered, and the discussion moved over to Products.

I think the best option for us is to cache the forms for speed sake. Thank you again, Sanford!

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