Put your form on your own website

A form is most likely to be filled in where people already are. Sending them to another site loses some of them on the way, and a form that sits inside your own page looks like part of it. hootform gives every published form a snippet you can paste into any website, and a QR code for everywhere a link can't go.

How it works in hootform

1. Publish the form and choose Share. The Embed tab offers four ways to show it: in the page, as a popup, as a slider from the side, or filling the whole window. See embedding.
2. Copy the snippet. It's a data-hootform element and one script tag. The script is needed once per page, however many forms the page has, and the button that opens a popup can be any button or link of your own.
3. Paste it into your site. Website builders that only take an <iframe> get a plain one instead, with a tick box.

It behaves like the rest of your page

An embedded form keeps everything it does on its own page: logic, answer recall, file uploads, follow-ups and saving progress as people go. An ending that redirects moves your whole page, not just the frame, and a password-protected form asks for its password inside the frame. Your page hears about it when someone finishes, through a hootform:complete event, so you can show your own message or record a conversion.

Know where every response came from

Values for hidden fields can be set on the embed itself, or passed through from your page's own link, so a page opened from an advert records which advert it was.

A QR code for paper and screens

The QR code tab draws the form's link as a code to print or download as a PNG or SVG. Type a value into a hidden field there and every response from that code records it: one code for the poster, another for the flyer. See printing a QR code.