Title: Conditional Fields Required Not Working!
Last modified: April 23, 2018

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# Conditional Fields Required Not Working!

 *  Resolved [joannaaustria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joannaaustria/)
 * (@joannaaustria)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * As you can see in the bottom page form, I have this conditional fields setup 
   to show when the user choose in the dropdown. The fields inside are required.
   But why is the form still sending even this fields isn’t filled out.
 * Let me know asap. Thanks.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fconditional-fields-required-not-working%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208318)
 * use conditional tags in the email:
 *     ```
       [persongroup-2]
        ...
       [/persongroup-2]
       [persongroup-3]
        ...
       [/persongroup-3]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [joannaaustria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joannaaustria/)
 * (@joannaaustria)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208377)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for a prompt response!
 * What do you mean Jules?
    This my cf7 form code.
 *     ```
       <div class="mapic-form">
   
       <label>[text* your-name placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       <label>No. Of Seats [select* seats "1" "2" "3" "4" "5"]</label>
   
       [group group-2]
   
       <div class="group">
   
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 2</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-2 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-2 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-2 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       [/group]
   
       [group group-3]
   
       <div class="group">
   
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 2</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-2 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-2 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-2 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 3</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-3 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-3 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-3 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       [/group]
   
       [group group-4]
   
       <div class="group">
   
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 2</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-2 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-2 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-2 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 3</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-3 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-3 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-3 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 4</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-4 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-4 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-4 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       [/group]
   
       [group group-5]
   
       <div class="group">
   
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 2</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-2 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-2 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-2 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 3</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-3 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-3 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-3 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 4</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-4 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-4 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-4 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
       <div class="group-item">
       <h5>Guest 5</h5>
       <label>[text* your-name-5 placeholder "First Name *"]</label>
   
       <label>[email* your-email-5 placeholder "Email *"]</label>
   
       <label>[text* your-phone-5 placeholder "Phone Number *"]</label>
   
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       [/group]
   
       <p style="text-align: right;">[submit "RESERVE MY SPOT NOW"]</p>
   
       </div>
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208396)
 * If you don’t want to show the groups that were not visible during form submission,
   you should add this to your email message:
 *     ```
       [group-1]
       your name: [your-name-1]
       your email: [your-email-1]
       [/group1]
       [group-2]
       your name: [your-name-2]
       your email: [your-email-2]
       [/group2]
       ...
       ```
   
 * Please check the tutorial if it’s still not clear: [http://bdwm.be/wpcf7cf/how-to-set-up-conditional-fields-for-contact-form-7/](http://bdwm.be/wpcf7cf/how-to-set-up-conditional-fields-for-contact-form-7/)
 *  Thread Starter [joannaaustria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joannaaustria/)
 * (@joannaaustria)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208481)
 * No Jules. What I meant is how is the form sending with the required fields not
   filled up? The form should not work unless the required fields in the conditional
   group is filled up.
 * [⌊2018-04-23_1624⌉⌊2018-04-23_1624⌉[
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208586)
 * I see, the problem is that you have the same field name multiple times in your
   form.
 * For example, you have a field called `your-name-2`, appearing 3 times. You need
   to change this to
 *     ```
       your-name-1-2
       your-name-2-2
       your-name-3-2
       ```
   
 * Same for all the other fields. there can not be any duplicates.
 *  Thread Starter [joannaaustria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joannaaustria/)
 * (@joannaaustria)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208735)
 * It’s resolved Jules thanks a lot!! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208879)
 * you’re welcome! feel free to leave a review if you like the plugin. 😉

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-fields-required-not-working/#post-10208879)
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