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Bug - Blank Form Text Boxes Show "Text box" as Value

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Posted on by choldcroft

This appears to be happening on both the classic form control and the new modern form control. Whenever the form is in edit mode, any blank text input data cards have their value replaced with "Text box" as shown below. Submitting the form actually submits "Text box" back to the data source (Dataverse for Teams in this case). Does anyone know what might be causing this?

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choldcroft 27 on at

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I should also note - this only occurs in the published app and does not happen when editing the app. It also doesn't appear to be anything with default values of the text boxes, as it happens even on a freshly inserted form.

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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What doyou use in the default value or hinttext value?

You can set it to " " an empty string and it should show blank

Let me know if my answer helped solving your issue.

If it did please accept as solution and give it a thumbs up so we can help others in the community.

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choldcroft 27 on at

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Setting the default value, hinttext, and placeholder to "" still shows "Text box" when the form is in edit mode and published. Using a space in between the quotes (so just a space character as the value) causes no value to be displayed in the text box, but that's only because there is a space character entered (which makes sense).

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Is any other propety set to "Text box"?

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choldcroft 27 on at

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I wish there was! Nothing on the datacard controls has "Text box" mentioned anywhere, and even searching the app doesn't show any results for "Text box":

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Click on one datacardvalue control and click the advanced settings on the right hand side, there u can scroll thru all properties.

Have a look there if u can find "text box" there anywhere.

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choldcroft 27 on at

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Nothing there shows "Text box" either. Even on a newly inserted form the same thing occurs. Below are the fields from advanced settings (this is the one that I had replaced the default values with "", but the same thing happens when they are set to Parent.Default):

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Did u try to change the tooltip property? Delete the parent.displayname and set ""

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TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

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I would recommend adding a new form with same datasource, launching the app and see if the issue is present in new form as well. If it is not, just recreate the form. There are times when forms break and do weird stuff after editing something with no logical explanation to why. I tend to avoid forms and create my own via custom components

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choldcroft 27 on at

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Thank you both for the suggestions. I tried changing the tooltip property, as well as adding a new form (both the classic and the modern form). With the new forms, I also tried the same data source as well as different data sources, and both gave the same result.

mmbr1606, I must have not had the app refreshed when I tested one of your suggestions earlier. I did find that setting the value field of the text box to "" removed the "Text box" text. This does appear to be the issue - when the value of the data card value is set to Parent.Default and the field is empty in the data source (or when the form mode is "New"), it will show "Text box" as the data card value.

This only started happening ~2 weeks ago, and prior to that time blank values would show correctly. Any thoughts?

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