Required Fields Contact Form - Dawn Theme

Store Design

Topic summary

A user is attempting to modify the Dawn theme’s contact form to make all fields required (with asterisks) and change the “comment” label to “message.” Simply adding “required” attributes to input elements did not work.

Solutions provided:

  • One responder shared modified code that adds the “required” tag to each input element in the contact-form.liquid file
  • The code includes changes to name, email, phone, and message (textarea) fields
  • Another user referenced a YouTube tutorial video demonstrating how to make contact form fields required in Dawn theme

Technical details:

  • The issue involves editing the contact-form.liquid file
  • Changes require modifying Liquid template code for form inputs
  • The solution involves adding HTML5 “required” attributes to form elements

The discussion remains open with multiple approaches offered but no confirmation from the original poster about which solution worked.

Summarized with AI on November 13. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi there,

I am wanting to make all fields on the contact field required with * and also change the bottom box from “comment” to “message”

Adding “required” to each “input” didn’t work.

Code below:

contact-form.liquid:

{{ ‘section-contact-form.css’ | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}

{%- style -%}
.section-{{ section.id }}-padding {
padding-top: {{ section.settings.padding_top | times: 0.75 | round: 0 }}px;
padding-bottom: {{ section.settings.padding_bottom | times: 0.75 | round: 0 }}px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 750px) {
.section-{{ section.id }}-padding {
padding-top: {{ section.settings.padding_top }}px;
padding-bottom: {{ section.settings.padding_bottom }}px;
}
}
{%- endstyle -%}

{{ section.settings.heading | escape }}

{%- form 'contact', id: 'ContactForm', class: 'isolate' -%} {%- if form.posted_successfully? -%}
{% render 'icon-success' %} {{ 'templates.contact.form.post_success' | t }}
{%- elsif form.errors -%}

{% render 'icon-error' %} {{ 'templates.contact.form.error_heading' | t }}

{%- endif -%}
{{ 'templates.contact.form.name' | t }}
{{ 'templates.contact.form.email' | t }} * {%- if form.errors contains 'email' -%} {{ 'accessibility.error' | t }} {% render 'icon-error' %}{{ form.errors.translated_fields['email'] | capitalize }} {{ form.errors.messages['email'] }} {%- endif -%}
{{ 'templates.contact.form.phone' | t }}
{{- form.body -}} {{ 'templates.contact.form.comment' | t }}
{{ 'templates.contact.form.send' | t }}
{%- endform -%}

{% schema %}
{
“name”: “t:sections.contact-form.name”,
“tag”: “section”,
“class”: “section”,
“settings”: [
{
“type”: “text”,
“id”: “heading”,
“default”: “Contact form”,
“label”: “Heading”
},
{
“type”: “select”,
“id”: “heading_size”,
“options”: [
{
“value”: “h2”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.heading_size.options__1.label”
},
{
“value”: “h1”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.heading_size.options__2.label”
},
{
“value”: “h0”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.heading_size.options__3.label”
}
],
“default”: “h1”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.heading_size.label”
},
{
“type”: “select”,
“id”: “color_scheme”,
“options”: [
{
“value”: “accent-1”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.accent_1.label”
},
{
“value”: “accent-2”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.accent_2.label”
},
{
“value”: “background-1”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.background_1.label”
},
{
“value”: “background-2”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.background_2.label”
},
{
“value”: “inverse”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.inverse.label”
}
],
“default”: “background-1”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.colors.label”
},
{
“type”: “header”,
“content”: “t:sections.all.padding.section_padding_heading”
},
{
“type”: “range”,
“id”: “padding_top”,
“min”: 0,
“max”: 100,
“step”: 4,
“unit”: “px”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.padding.padding_top”,
“default”: 36
},
{
“type”: “range”,
“id”: “padding_bottom”,
“min”: 0,
“max”: 100,
“step”: 4,
“unit”: “px”,
“label”: “t:sections.all.padding.padding_bottom”,
“default”: 36
}
],
“presets”: [
{
“name”: “t:sections.contact-form.presets.name”
}
]
}
{% endschema %}

2

Hi @bloom-org-nz

To make that, you need to add the “required” tag for each input element.
You can use this code, that I added required tag for the input element

{{ 'section-contact-form.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}

{%- style -%}
.section-{{ section.id }}-padding {
padding-top: {{ section.settings.padding_top | times: 0.75 | round: 0 }}px;
padding-bottom: {{ section.settings.padding_bottom | times: 0.75 | round: 0 }}px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 750px) {
.section-{{ section.id }}-padding {
padding-top: {{ section.settings.padding_top }}px;
padding-bottom: {{ section.settings.padding_bottom }}px;
}
}
{%- endstyle -%}

## {{ section.settings.heading | escape }}
{%- form 'contact', id: 'ContactForm', class: 'isolate' -%}
{%- if form.posted_successfully? -%}
{% render 'icon-success' %} {{ 'templates.contact.form.post_success' | t }}

{%- elsif form.errors -%}

## {% render 'icon-error' %} {{ 'templates.contact.form.error_heading' | t }}

- {{ form.errors.translated_fields['email'] | capitalize }} {{ form.errors.messages['email'] }}

{%- endif -%}

{%- if form.errors contains 'email' -%}
<small>
{{ 'accessibility.error' | t }}
{% render 'icon-error' %}{{ form.errors.translated_fields['email'] | capitalize }} {{ form.errors.messages['email'] }}
</small>
{%- endif -%}

{%- endform -%}

{% schema %}
{
"name": "t:sections.contact-form.name",
"tag": "section",
"class": "section",
"settings": [
{
"type": "text",
"id": "heading",
"default": "Contact form",
"label": "Heading"
},
{
"type": "select",
"id": "heading_size",
"options": [
{
"value": "h2",
"label": "t:sections.all.heading_size.options__1.label"
},
{
"value": "h1",
"label": "t:sections.all.heading_size.options__2.label"
},
{
"value": "h0",
"label": "t:sections.all.heading_size.options__3.label"
}
],
"default": "h1",
"label": "t:sections.all.heading_size.label"
},
{
"type": "select",
"id": "color_scheme",
"options": [
{
"value": "accent-1",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.accent_1.label"
},
{
"value": "accent-2",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.accent_2.label"
},
{
"value": "background-1",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.background_1.label"
},
{
"value": "background-2",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.background_2.label"
},
{
"value": "inverse",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.inverse.label"
}
],
"default": "background-1",
"label": "t:sections.all.colors.label"
},
{
"type": "header",
"content": "t:sections.all.padding.section_padding_heading"
},
{
"type": "range",
"id": "padding_top",
"min": 0,
"max": 100,
"step": 4,
"unit": "px",
"label": "t:sections.all.padding.padding_top",
"default": 36
},
{
"type": "range",
"id": "padding_bottom",
"min": 0,
"max": 100,
"step": 4,
"unit": "px",
"label": "t:sections.all.padding.padding_bottom",
"default": 36
}
],
"presets": [
{
"name": "t:sections.contact-form.presets.name"
}
]
}
{% endschema %}
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3

Hi @bloom-org-nz , the solution to making contact page form fields required in Shopify’s Dawn theme can be found in this short YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LI7iyHABpo