Can I prevent form on website from being bloccked by pop-up blocker ??

**John Young** · 15 October 2016, 09:59 AM

I have uBlock origin installed on my browser and it works great on websites and is very popular. But today when I went to my own site (page below) which is a contact page for customers the form was not there and would only appear when I disabled ublock

http://www.johnyoung.co/contact.htm

Anyone know how I can stop this happening or will I need to put a message up advising visitors to disable ublock ?

**gwpriester** · 15 October 2016, 12:32 PM

Hmm? I would say no. But I bet one of the more imaginative members will have a better answer.

I would just have the contact form on the contact us page, or perhaps on a separate page that you can link to from the contact page, e.g. Click here to Send email or Click here for a detailed form.

And in Firefox with Block Pop-ups enabled I see your form.

**handrawn** · 15 October 2016, 12:32 PM

I do not have ublock - I have adblock

I switched adblock off and the contact form appeared; I then switched adblock back on and the form persisted...

I did not disable my built-in browser popup blocking - I don't intend doing that for anything bar absolute emergency; it should never be necessary with a user-friendly site

**Fred C** · 15 October 2016, 02:14 PM

John, the contact page and form appear with both Adblock and Popup blocker on. (IE11)

**John Young** · 15 October 2016, 05:43 PM

Oh right that is interesting thank you everyone for looking.... so it seems to appear on some configurations of browser and adblockers but not others

I have firefox with ublock origin and it blocks in that

gwpriester - That's not a bad idea and maybe something I might have to do if nothing else works

**jamesd** · 15 October 2016, 11:59 PM

I think the Iframe is being blocked. I don't use Jotform but I think they have an option to embed with JS, or adding the source code. Perhaps one of those would get passed the blocker :-)

**John Young** · 16 October 2016, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by jamesd

I think the Iframe is being blocked. I don't use Jotform but I think they have an option to embed with JS, or adding the source code. Perhaps one of those would get passed the blocker :-)

Thanks - I wish Xara used their own forms maybe that would help

**John Young** · 16 October 2016, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by jamesd

I think the Iframe is being blocked. I don't use Jotform but I think they have an option to embed with JS, or adding the source code. Perhaps one of those would get passed the blocker :-)

Anyone give any guidance on how to do either of above please ?

**Acorn** · 16 October 2016, 05:47 PM

Surely no matter what you choose to do to your browser, you have no control over what anyone else is doing. Many people block JavaScript; nothing I know of blocks an IFRAME. Adding source code, which is just text would do nothing.
You seem to have deleted the form so no-one can really advise further.

Xara can't offer to use thir own forms as Xara would have to host them - therefore third party...
If you have the right ISP that can handle server-side scripting then you have have "first"-party forms. I use CoffeCup WebForms and their second option:

Automated form processing: Save all your data using S-Drive, but use the provided HTML code to embed your form in a webpage.
Manual server setup: Excludes S-Drive entirely and requires that you save your form results to a text file or a database and upload all the form’s files to your web server. HTML embed code is also provided.

For these to work in Xara, they would still need to be embedded using Placeholders (and IFRAMES). Xara pages are not dynamic (end with .htm(l)).

Acorn

**John Young** · 16 October 2016, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

Surely no matter what you choose to do to your browser, you have no control over what anyone else is doing. Many people block JavaScript; nothing I know of blocks an IFRAME. Adding source code, which is just text would do nothing.
You seem to have deleted the form so no-one can really advise further.

Xara can't offer to use thir own forms as Xara would have to host them - therefore third party...
If you have the right ISP that can handle server-side scripting then you have have "first"-party forms. I use CoffeCup WebForms and their second option:

For these to work in Xara, they would still need to be embedded using Placeholders (and IFRAMES). Xara pages are not dynamic (end with .htm(l)).

Acorn

My form is there ( I hope

) it did seem to disappear for some reason and I must have hit the wrong button as it was in the bin of JotForm but it should be back now

When you say use coffee cup and their second option etc do you mean from the cpanel of your host ?