Friday, 5 July 2013
Required field must not be blank - solution
Any blogger who recently have tried to add or edit a gadget (page element) which did not have a title for the gadget must have come across this problem - the gadget cannot be saved without a title. Error message - "Required field must not be blank"
One way to solve the problem is of course to give them what they want - a title for the gadget. But then many don't want that, so how?
There is a simple solution, a trick if you may, to this problem. Put the HTML comment tag
<!-- -->
into the box (field) for the title. Such HTML comment tag will not be displayed in any browser.
Update: Another way will be to just type the space bar once. This may be a better solution as typing the comment tag <!-- --> will result in <!-- --> being displayed in the Archive gadget.
Further, if you wish you can put some texts between the comment tag, it too will not be displayed
<!-- these text will not be displayed -->
Note: Had I typed in the comment tag exactly as you see it above, it would be invisible to you. You may be interested in how I got around it. Refer to How to display special characters or ways to display HTML tags in posts and comments
Additional note: For those not familiar with HTML comment tag and not confident about how the comment tag will appear after posting, you can try a test post or just copy-paste the following script:
<!-- this is a pair of HTML comment tag -->
into the post editor, Preview, and presto, the comments disappear!
Source : bloggertipsandtricks[dot]com
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