How To Change Marketing Consent Text on Squarespace Forms

Oct 10

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About this tutorial

This tutorial was recorded in Squarespace 7.1 and will not work on legacy sites built on version 7. For more information, visit insidethesquare.co/themes

This is for contact forms. To change the conent disclaimer text on a newsletter form, double click the newsletter form and cusotmize the text in the Squarespace editor.

Squarespace forms have gotten some major updates lately, and one of them is an automatically added checkbox that appears under the email field. The text that goes with it says “Sign up for news and updates”

But what if you don’t have news or updates?
What if you have a fancy name for your newsletter, or you want to send them offers for your store? 🤔

We can’t change that text in Squarespace, but we can with custom code! This tutorial will show you how to update the subscription confirmation text to your own.

One super important thing to know before we get to the code: this is not legal advice! Keeping your site compliant is up to you.

The step by step tutorial is below, along with the code that you can use to add your own custom text. Be sure to watch the video so you know how to use it!

Video tutorial

 Code Example

Here is the code from this tutorial. 
Be sure to update the text for your unique website needs, and remember,
this is not legal advice. Keeping your website and website forms compliant is up to you!

.form-field-checkbox-shape-square .sqs-block-form .form-item.email *:nth-child(3){
font-size: 0!important
}
.form-field-checkbox-shape-square .sqs-block-form .form-item.email *:nth-child(3)::after{
content: "Check this box to be added to my email list. You can opt out at anytime.";
font-size:1rem;
line-height: 1.25rem!important
}

Here is how to add this code to your site: