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Numbering Gravity Forms List Field Rows

Download a quick bit of code to automatically add numbers to your List field rows in Gravity Forms.

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  • May 16, 2023: Improved styling and removed support for versions less than GF 2.5.

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Here’s a quick bit of CSS that will automatically number your Gravity Forms List field rows. It does this using CSS psuedo elements within each row to add a “number” column.

Getting Started

To install this snippet, copy and paste the CSS code to your theme’s style.css file. Then on any List field for which you would like to number the rows, just add the gw-number-rows class to the field’s “CSS Class Name” setting.

Notes

This will work in all modern browsers and IE9+. Depending on your site’s styles, you may need to adjust the margin and width set in the CSS snippet. Experiment!

Automate working with lists!

Gravity Forms Auto List Field auto-syncs the number of rows in a List field with a Number or Quantity field value. It can also count the number of List field rows and use that value in Gravity Forms List field calculations!

For example, selling tickets to an event? As you input the number of people attending, corresponding List field rows will automatically appear on your form as the number of people entered increases, allowing you to easily add ticket holders’ names and emails.

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Comments

    • Dario Space says

      Hi Somrat,

      It seems to be working as expected when adding the CSS code and the class to the List field. If you have an active Gravity Perks Pro License you can get in touch with us via our support form, so we can assist you further.

      Best,

  2. John says

    Hi David

    Thanks for this useful CSS.

    I have it working on 2.5 i.e it displays correctly in a browser but the row numbers do not get written to the entry in the database. Is it supposed to work this way or is there a way to add the row number to the entry for extracting and Gravity PDF reporting purposes?

    Kind regards

    John

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    • Samuel Bassah says

      Hi John,

      Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to work. This is a custom CSS, so it numbers the rows in the browser.

      Best,

  4. Robert Thomson says

    David, this is great stuff! Already using your snippet for adding rows to a list based on a previous field number.

    Just wondering – is this list numbering snipped still working for the latest version of Gravity Forms? I’m new to Gravity Forms (i.e., like last week), and it seems they’re no longer using tables?

    At the very least, the snippet isn’t working for me on my form:

    Smartphone: https://snipboard.io/ZlVB23.jpg Desktop: https://snipboard.io/8qU0T4.jpg

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    • Samuel Bassah says

      Hi Robert,

      You’re right, with the new changes, the custom CSS code doesn’t work with Gravity Forms 2.5. I’ll pass this over to our developers. That said, as a workaround, you can “Enable Legacy Markup” under the form settings, to get the CSS code working again.

      Best,

    • Scott Buchmann says

      Hi Antoine,

      You can add it in front of the counter in the content.

      .gw-number-rows .gfield_list tbody tr:before { content: 'Flight ' counter(gflistrowcounter); counter-increment: gflistrowcounter; }

      You’ll probably also want to adjust the width to accommodate for the extra text.

  7. alper karaman says

    Hello David, is there any way numbering the entries in gravity view like 1. David (first approved entry) 2. Alper (second) 3. …. (third) 4. ….

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  9. Andy Daum says

    Dear David,

    Thank you so much for all the material you create.

    I’m having a small issue with this snippet. Namely, I can’t get the numbers to increase sequentially. It’s just 1,1,1,1,1,1.

    I thought might be to do with the fact I have this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-list-field-select-drop-down/ installed and was using in the relevant list field. However, I removed the dropdown, deactivated the plugin, and got the same result.

    I’ve put images of all this in this public Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10f25t9NHRMq5pgawN_u9iOfX0hCkh0UXKOnefDCVCns/pub

    I hope I’ve not made any silly errors here, and apologies if so. I would really appreciate your advice!

    Thank you very much. Best, A.

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  12. Lars says

    Hi David,

    Would it be possible to have a list field with two columns and then populate the first column with numbers same way as the above snippet does, but inside the input field instead?

    I’m new to GF and what a great ressource this site is!

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      Hi Lars, glad you’re finding the site useful. Unfortunately, I don’t have a ready solution for populating the number into one of the columns of the List field.

    • Lars says

      Hi David,

      Thanks for the prompt response. I actually thought that it was a pretty simple thing to do using “dynamic population” one way or the other, and that the solution above was of the more advanced type.

      As an alternative, using the above solution, are the numbers for each row then included in any submission of the form?

    • David Smith says

      Hi Lars, it is possible to dynamically populate the List field inputs. If you ping Gravity Forms Support they’ll be able to provide instructions on how you might do that.

      The issue, I suspect, is that when you dynamically populate a List field, it adds the rows automatically. If you want the number to be dynamically generated when a new list field is added, dynamic population probably won’t work.

  13. Adlan Khalidi says

    Hi. I’m doing a list of item using Gravity Form.

    In the end of the list or after the list, I want to display the number of rows that user has created.

    E.g. – item A – item B – item C – –

    (the last 2 has no item, so don’t need to calculate)

    Total number :[ 3 ] <- a text field with specific class but user cannot change/disabled)

    Do you know how I can achieve this?

    Thanks

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  14. Catharine says

    Thanks for the link David! Do you still do commissions for features? If so, I was wondering how much you would quote for the list field conditional logic thing.

    Regards, Catharine

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    • Catharine says

      Hi David,

      I sent you a reply to your email on the 26 Feb, at 16:37 – just assumed you were catching up on a backlog or something! Let me know if you can’t find it and I’ll resend it.

      Thanks, Catharine

    • David Smith says

      Hi Catharine, yeah, not seeing your reply. I just replied again in the same thread. If you’d like to reply again and confirm here, I’ll make sure I got it.

  15. Catharine says

    Hi David,

    Cool snippet! As an aside though, how did you configure that list field so that only the first two columns were required? And also, I understand that at present, you can’t use the inputs within a list field in conditional logic for other fields. Do you have or are you planning to bring out a perk to get around this?

    Thanks, Catharine

    Reply

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