Title: Issue with Validation?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Issue with Validation?

 *  [Beau2014](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beau2014/)
 * (@beau2014)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-validation/)
 * Hello!
    We have a website with Contact Form 7 that was previously validating 
   just fine – and recently it began to have a problem. I was not the first person
   to note the issue – so I’m not sure if there’s a change that coincided with it–
   I’m not seeing anything obvious.
 * Basically – in the Contact Form 7 form we used the * to validate/force entry 
   of the required fields. I.e.: [text* last-name]
 * When the form submits – it redirects to a Thank you page. What started happening
   was that we would get the successful submit message – and it would indeed show
   up in our contact form db, however the page would not redirect – it would show
   the form again with red x’s next to each field that was set as mandatory with
   our * code. Like it was trying to revalidate after submission when the form had
   been cleared.
 * When I remove the required field * code, I.e.: [text last-name] – it works without
   the problem red x’s and redirects as originally set. However we would like to
   require that those fields be entered before submitting. Has anyone else seen 
   this? Is there a change or workaround to how those should be structured?
 * Many Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-validation/#post-6014517)
 * Try deactivating all other plugins and switching to the default theme.

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## Tags

 * [red x](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/red-x/)
 * [redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-validation/#post-6014517)
 * Status: not resolved