Currently (2025-04) this seems impossible \/ Elementor can’t provide a working solution! I’ve had to give up, hopefully this will get resolved for others…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In our tests will let you change some things and apparently can be used for checkboxes and select boxes, but providing a text input box value not working for us<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are also hooks for, ‘elementor_pro\/forms\/render\/item\/text\/’, ‘elementor_pro\/forms\/render\/item.\/checkbox’, etc if you prefer a hook that targets only one field type (or you can just check the field type in this)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also doesn’t work in our tests<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elementor support gave us this exampel as the recomended way to do it, but in out tests the hook is never called. If you search ‘elementor_pro\/forms\/render’ it also doesn’t appear in any elementor docs to be able to look it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently (2025-04) this seems impossible \/ Elementor can’t provide a working solution! I’ve had to give up, hopefully this will get resolved for others… ‘elementor_pro\/forms\/render\/item’ method In our tests will let you change some things and apparently can be used for checkboxes and select boxes, but providing a text input box value not working for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/wordpress-sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}add_filter('elementor_pro\/forms\/render\/item', function( $item, $index, $form )\n{\n $form_name = $form->get_settings_for_display( 'form_name' );\n\n if ($form_name === 'search_page_enter_postcode')\n {\n if ($item['custom_id'] === 'finder_search_near_postcode' )\n {\n $item['field_label'] = 'My new label'; \/\/<<<This works - label text is changed\n $item['field_value'] = 'abcdef'; \/\/<<<This doesn't work, field remains blank\n }\n }\nreturn($item);\n}, 10, 3<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n‘elementor_pro\/forms\/render’<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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