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A client had a conundrum. They are — as we firmly recommend— using a global Marketo contact form across many pages. But the form has built-in Custom CSS (Form Settings » Form Theme » ⚙ » Edit Custom CSS in Form Editor). That CSS was built to match the look-and-feel of older pages. But their new LPs ...

Warning: this blog post will seem out-of-nowhere until you read the next one, which is a Marketo-focused use for the code supplied below. But this had to come out first in preparation. Something’s notable about a

This post from 2016 (!) was copied from the NYC MUG blog for wider visibility. There are so many posts about this. With incomplete and not-quite-right responses out there, you might not know if it can or can't be done with Marketo. But it certainly can: So why the confusion?Maybe because you can p...

Some months back, I told you how to accurately wait for the MktoForms2 global object — a dependency for all custom Forms 2.0 JS behaviors. A recent Marketo Nation thread piqued my interest in the opposite direction. The question, consolidated for readability:Question about embedded forms.I can detec...

Someone bumped an old Nation thread with my code to add a CSS class to every element indicating the type of input it’s labeling, like: You can then use generic CSS selectors, i.e. .mktoForm label.for-type-radio. After all, you almost certainly want to style all labels for radio buttons the same wa...

Email developers, as you know, are forcibly trapped in the 90s when it comes to HTML. (Or maybe trapped in a dystopia where Web-0.9-era HTML4 mixes with some time-jumping CSS3.) So they’re used to setting the ancient width and height HTML attributeson an element (not to be confused with width and he...

Just because you can serve Forms 2.0 JavaScript enhancements from a Rich Text area on the form — I showed how to do that in an earlier post — doesn’t mean you should! If you use this method, you need to be sure — much more sure than usual — that your code doesn’t bug out. If you tend to code optimis...