Explicitly declare which pages should the Form Auto Detection run on

[nathanmartin]

@donsbox This has been asked previously here:

Forms detection now off by default

Will it eventually be possible to specify specific pages with forms (so Netlify doesn’t need to scan every page for them)? Also, for a plain HTML/CSS with only vanilla JS (and then only for search) using an SSG (in my case Hugo), what kinds of options are there for contact forms (the only forms I have on any of my sites) that don’t involve a third-party service? If there are alternatives that would work in this scenario with only Netlify-based features (preferably with a light usage ‘Starter’ …

The answer was:

@kito

Good question. Right now there’s nothing in the roadmap for it but it’s a really good idea! I’ll create an issue internally to investigate this (but can’t promise anything!)

It was still not on the roadmap as of Sep 2024:

Forms detection now off by default

Straightforward change is a myth. As for discussions, there have been a few especially to improve forms support for SSR-pages, but currently there’s no concrete plan. So I don’t believe this would change anytime soon.

If I were you, I’d make plans around not having it anytime soon.