The Google Forms plugin doesn’t make any changes to the HTML that would prevent it from working on a mobile device. Have you checked your theme to see if it is doing something to the form to support mobile? On my own site I have verified that my sample forms work on my iPhone.
Thanks Mike, this was the response I got from the theme developers:
“Try to add some text into first <option> tag, like <option value=””>Choose…</option>
Here is a plugin demo (http://formstone.it/components/Selecter/demo/index.html) that we used for select inputs and it works fine at mobiles”
Is there a way to do this?
Hmmm … it sounds to me like your theme is mucking with the form elements. There is nothing inherently wrong with the form elements as Google delivers them. Visit this Sample Form on my web site using a mobile device. The dropdown menus work as expected and the form submits correctly.
I’d have to look closer at your form to see what is actually happening however it can be a challenge to do so because I don’t have a good way to look at what is going on like I do with Firebug on a mobile device) – if you know of something I’d love to know about it.
Do you have any options on the Google side where you define the form to add a placeholder field in the option list?
The only way I know for sure to do it would be with jQuery but that is way beyond the scope of normal usage. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to implement though if you know jQuery.
