How to Change Your Form Warning Messages

June 3, 2025

Form warnings guide users while filling out your form. They can stop someone from submitting an incomplete entry, like a missing required field, or catch mistakes such as an invalid email address. Jotform gives you the flexibility to customize these warning messages to match the tone, wording, or language you want to use. Whether you want to keep things professional, friendly, or specific to your audience, you can make these alerts feel like a natural part of your form.


You can change your form’s warning messages in just a few steps. Here’s how to do it:

  1. On your My Workspace page, click on Type at the top and in the Dropdown menu that opens, uncheck the boxes next to all the assets except Forms, so only they’ll be shown on the page.
Forms option checked in the Type dropdown menu on the Jotform My Workspace page
  1. Hover your mouse over the form where you want to change the warning messages and click on Edit Form on the right side of the page.
Edit Form button of a form on the Jotform My Workspace page
  1. In Form Builder, in the orange navigation bar at the top of the page, click on Settings.
  2. Now, under Form Settings, click on Show More Options at the bottom.
Show More Options in the Form Settings section of the Settings tab in Jotform Form Builder
  1. Then, click on Edit on the right side of Form Warnings.
Edit button of the Form Warnings in the Form Settings section of the Settings tab in Jotform Form Builder
  1. In the Form Warnings section, enter a new message in the box of the corresponding warning message you want to change. You can use the search bar at the top to find a specific warning message easily.
  2. Once you’re done, click on Save Changes at the bottom.
Save Changes button of the Form Warnings section in the Form Settings section of the Settings tab in Jotform Form Builder

That’s it. Your form warning messages are now updated and will appear on your live form.

Sample updated form warning message of a Jotform form

Note

Only plain text is supported in form warning messages. HTML Text Formatting elements won’t work and will show up as plain text.

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