Title: Submit Button Space & Input Fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Submit Button Space & Input Fields

 *  [billybatz09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybatz09/)
 * (@billybatz09)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-button-space-input-fields/)
 * Hello,
 * I’d like to do two things.
 * 1) I took the required fields out by using this code.
 *     ```
       #mc-indicates-required {
       display: none;}
       ```
   
 * However, now there is somewhat of a gap between the input fields and submit button.
   Is there a way to move the submit button up a little to be closer?
 * 2) How do i place words in the text field? I would like to have “Enter email 
   address here…” in the email text field.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/)

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 *  [mc_dominic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc_dominic/)
 * (@mc_dominic)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-button-space-input-fields/#post-4711298)
 * Hi Billybatz09,
 * Thanks for hopping in the forum. There is some margin that is placed on top of
   the signup button. It can be removed by adding this bit of css to your site:
 *     ```
       #mc_signup #mc_signup_submit {
       margin-top: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * By default the ‘placeholder’ text in your fields is taken from the ‘default text
   value’ in your MailChimp list forms. This guide from the MailChimp database explains
   changing that default value: [http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-do-i-set-default-merge-values-like-dear-customer](http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-do-i-set-default-merge-values-like-dear-customer)
 * This will work for all fields except the email field. To add a placeholder to
   that field, a change will have to be made to the plugin files. The steps to do
   that are below:
 * -In wp-admin, go to Plugins > Editor > MailChimp > mailchimp_widget.php.
    -Locate
   this line of code: <input type=”text” size=”18″ placeholder=”‘.esc_html($var[‘
   default’]).'” name=”‘.esc_attr($opt).'” id=”‘.esc_attr($opt).'” class=”mc_input”/
   >’; -Change $var[‘default’] to $var[‘name’].
 * This will begin using your field label as what appears in the placeholder attribute
   for your input fields.
 * Let us know if you have any other questions.
 * -mc_d

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-button-space-input-fields/#post-4711298)
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