# Pre-populate certain fields

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/pre-populate-certain-fields/1486>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** forms\
**Created:** [April 5, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/pre-populate-certain-fields/1486 "2017-04-05T07:51:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ayrtonwebs](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/ayrtonwebs/32/38114_2.png) [@ayrtonwebs](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ayrtonwebs)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/pre-populate-certain-fields/1486/1 "2017-04-05T07:51:13Z")

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Under the contacts \> forms \> options there is an option to pre-populate fields with known values. As this is helpful in many ways, we encountered many times that the “message” textarea field also gets pre-populated with the same content as before. This could be a problem when you use the pre-populate function on a contact page for example.  
My suggestion for a new feature is that you can pre-populate certain fields, or at least disable pre-populating for certain input/textarea fields instead of all. I think this function would not only benefit us, but a lot of companies that use the pre-populating feature across their forms.

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