How Can I Add a List Selection Field To My Web Form?

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How Can I Add a List Selection Field To My Web Form?

If you'd like for your subscribers to have an option to select from multiple lists when they sign up to your list, you can do so under certain circumstances.

You'll need to use the "Raw HTML Version" of HTML the Web Form Generator provides and must have some basic HTML skills. This solution only works for in-line forms.

Here's how you can do it:

Create all of the lists you'd like to provide an option to sign up for.

You can navigate between lists using the "Current List" box. You'll need to reference this box later.

Then, click on the "Web Form" tab in the navigation menu:
Setup your form in the Web Form Generator:

Click on the "Create a New Field" button:

Enter "List Selection" for the name of the field:

Choose "Select Box" for the "Input Type":

Enter a label for your list selection field, as you'd like for it to appear on your form:

Enter the options you'd like your subscribers to select from, as you'd like for them to appear to them:

Finish designing your form. Note that you should not set the "List Selection" field as required.
Get your form's HTML:

Click on the "Publish" tab:

Click on the "Raw HTML Version" option from the tabs, then copy the HTML it contains to your clipboard:
Copy the HTML into your favorite text editor and make the following changes to the HTML:

Find the input field containing with a "name" attribute set to "listname" and remove it:

Find the select tag with the "name" attribute set to "custom List Selection":

Change that name attribute to "listname":

Change the "value" attributes for each of the drop-down's options to the names of each of the lists that go along with the labels your subscribers will see:
Publish your revised HTML to your website.