Last Friday, Google made a slight change to its Google Forms.

The code change affects all forms that use the Google Forms Confirmation redirect solution in our popular How To Style Google Forms tutorial.

Don’t worry if your form is broken because it should take you just a minute to fix it.

Simply go into your form code and replace the:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

with:

<input name="pageNumber" type="hidden" value="0" />
<input name="backupCache" type="hidden" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />

That’s it! I have fully tested this new version of the form and updated all the styled Google Form examples on our site.

Styled Google Form with Confirmation redirect

Styled Google Form with jQuery validation

Style Google Form with jQuery radio buttons validation

Still stuck?

If you’re having trouble getting your styled Google Form to work we recommend you try out an easy web form maker like FormSpring or Form Experts.

8 Comments to “Google Forms Update”

1. barb says:

   November 18, 2009 at 3:58 pm

   Thanks
2. Paul says:

   January 10, 2010 at 7:54 am

   Hi Dillon

   Thanks for your “How to style GoogleDoc Forms” series.
   It’s surely a great help for us, web dev, with the form thing.

   However, I got a few things on my mind.

   First, is this okay to do so ?
   Does this comply with the TOS ?

   Second, may i ask you to combine your 4 posts in this serie into one complete post ?

   Each time I visit your site to read the articles, i have to open your site in 3 different window to be able to switch back and forth reading different part of the instruction, so I figure it would be nice if you could combine them into one perfect complete post.

   Thanks for great tutorial.
3. Dillon says:

   January 11, 2010 at 12:07 pm

   @Paul Thanks for your feedback.

   I am working on a big How to style Google Forms redux post for 2010. The plan is to add extra functionality and put all the info in one place as you suggest. Look out for it!
4. Al Elliott says:

   January 14, 2010 at 5:08 am

   Hi Dillon,

   You are my nominated person of the day!

   Thank you so much for this – exactly what i was looking for.

   Al
5. How to style Google forms | Morning Copy says:

   February 12, 2010 at 5:42 am

   [...] your Google Form stopped working because of updates to the Google Forms source code? Check out our Google Forms Update post and find out how to fix this issue in [...]
6. Enzo says:

   March 3, 2010 at 5:58 am

   Any progress on the new form styling tutorial? I hope you discuss making use of the pagination capability.

   Looking forward to your next post on this!
7. dc says:

   March 14, 2010 at 2:49 pm

   Hey thanks for taking the time to type this update. Will be looking for the redux whenever you are done with it. I do have a suggestion though, a lot of the search engines are still linking to your first post on Google Forms confirmation redirect and it appears the post is no longer up. Might want to place a redirect on that page all the search engines keep targeting.

   Search engines point to here: http://www.morningcopy.com.au/how-to-style-google-forms/, instead the link should be http://www.morningcopy.com.au/announcements/how-to-style-google-forms/
8. Dillon says:

   March 14, 2010 at 10:19 pm

   Thanks DC! We changed the category names and neglected to update the .htaccess redirects for our indexed pages.

   Redux is on it’s way!

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