Netlify forms hidden input no longer working consistently

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For some reason, Netlify Forms no longer receives hidden input values consistently.

It occasionally passes the value.

You can see an example on this page in our comment form: Days Of The Week In Spanish (Quick Guide + Sample Sentences)

There’s a hidden input that passes the url of the page to Netlify Forms:

<input name="path" type="hidden" value="https://www.mezzoguild.com/learn/spanish/vocabulary/days-of-the-week/">

We use this so we know where the comment came from and organize it accordingly.

Netlify for the past 2 years has always passed this value, but lately it just shows an empty value.

So I’m wondering if there’s been a change in the way that Netlify receives hidden input values - does it ignore hidden inputs?

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howdy! any changes on this at all? still experiencing the same? I have asked around but i am not hearing any work having being rolled out that might effect this, so i am wondering if it is something specific to your project. any thoughts?

3

Your form is very different from Netlify standards. In Netlify, to link your form and the dashboard you need to add some metadata and meta attributes, such as data-netlify="true" , data-netlify-honeypot="bot-field" (to avoid SPAM) and a name attribute with exactly the same name than your Netlify form in your dashboard. It must look like:

<form name="contact" method="post" data-netlify="true" data-netlify-honeypot="bot-field">
  {/* You still need to add the hidden input with the form name to your JSX form */}
  <input type="hidden" name="form-name" value="contact" />
  ...
</form>