How to edit the form submission feedback?

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Hi there, WHERE OR HOW do I edit the feedback, if someone forget to fill a required form field. The default text “Fülle dieses Feld aus.” isn’t polite in German. I attached an example for the field “Herr/Frau”. Thank you for your help.

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thats coming from browser not bricks and language changes depending on browser lang and os as well.

here check this HTMLObjectElement: setCustomValidity() method - Web APIs | MDN

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Thank you, sinanisler! :+1: You are right, Chrome, Safari and Firefox have all another error message resp. translations of it.

  • Chrome: “! Fill out this field” translated to “! Fülle dieses Feld aus” > very impolite in German
  • Safari: “Complete the field” translated to “Feld ausfüllen” > impolite in German
  • Firefox: “Please fill out this field” translated to “Bitte füllen Sie dieses Feld aus” > polite in German

I don’t know, if the original error message (in English) is the same for all browsers. The messages in English above are retranslated from German.

I visited your linked site, but I’m not sure, what to do. Can you show me, where and how I reach the (js?-)code to solve my issue? That would be great. Thank you very much. :blush:

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just copy paste that page to chatgpt if you want but I really dont recommend changing those translations.

Because that langauge changes on every users browser if someone visits from UK will see EN if some visits from France will see FR …etc every browser handles that automaticly.

so the moment you overwrite those settings JUST FOR DE you will force everyone see the DE as well if you have time to add 20-20 language to just fix this issue be my guest.

here maybe read this as well Don’t Rely on Default Browser Error Messages - Intopia
this article shows couple solutions

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Thank you for your reply, sinanisler! I read that post (yes, interesting).

My situation: I’m a copywriter and webdesigner in Zurich/Switzerland mainly for local German speaking clients. So I would like to change this translations only for Chrome, Firefox and Safari – and only in German. So I think the effort is manageable.

My question: Which page, sections or blocks do you mean in “copy paste that page to chatgpt”?

Thank you for your reply, indeed. :blush: