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How to create a heading / subheading in a form?

  • September 25, 2023
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I'm trying to add a heading / subheading in my Airtable form to separate the different sets of questions. On the Airtable "how to create a form" page, there is this image containing a "subheading" field:

The circled "sub-heading" option doesn't seem to exist anywhere when I'm creating new fields. Am I missing something or did they make a mistake on the Support page?

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ScottWorld
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  • September 25, 2023

That photo is misleading because they named a field "subheading"... it's not referring to a subheading for the form.

Airtable’s forms are pretty basic and they do not support groupings, subheadings, headings, or any other styling options at all.

So you would need to turn to an external form app to get what you want:

1. Your #1 best bet is to use Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable, which allows you to add text onto any part of your form, and you can style that text as well. You can make it a header, a subheader, a pargraph, etc. You can also create custom styles for your forms as well.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a formcreate custom PDF files from a form submissionaccept payments on formspre-fetch dynamic data from an Airtable record, customize the style and branding of your form, customize a theme for your form, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a formadd a login page to your form, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

2. JotForm is another good option for integrating with Airtable, and it also offers what you are looking for. JotForm has some basic integration with Airtable, but for more advanced integration with Airtable, you would want to send your data from JotForm to Airtable using Make’s JotForm integrations.

3. Cognito Forms is another great form app, and you can send data from Cognito Forms to Airtable using Make’s Cognito Forms integrations.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld


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  • September 25, 2023

Hi @ruyaae,

Unfortunately you cannot create a heading/subheading in an Airtable form. You can, however, add such layout items by using third-party form providers like Jotform, Cognito Forms or Fillout.

I hope this helps!

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ScottWorld
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@Alessio_Monino That is exactly what I just said above. Please don't copy and paste my solutions for people and pretend that they are your solutions. You have been doing this with several of my posts over the last week.


CristianCG
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  • November 12, 2024

Hi there!

At miniExtensions, we've created a third-party form that integrates seamlessly with Airtable and supports the creation of section headers:

You can also display the sections as pages:

Feel free to explore these features and many more with a free account on our site.