Hidden field in a Google Form

Question

I am adding a unique ID to each submission of the form. Right now, I made that ID the first field, and pre-filled it with the ID, along with a help text asking the user not

Answer 1

You can't do this directly by Google Forms but you can work around:

1. Create the google form containing the hidden field.
2. Create a Google Wep App (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web)

3. Insert the following code into the default Code.gs file. (This basically opens an index.html template.)

   doGet(e) { return HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('index').evaluate(); }

4. Create a new index.html file with the source code of your form.

5. Make the input field hidden by adding style="display:none" to its enclosing
6. Insert any template information into the field using
7. Publish the web app (Publish/Deploy web app...) and you're done. Now you have a link to a form which has the desired field hidden and pre-filled with your hidden value.

With this solution you can apply any custom style and even get rid of other unnecessary html elements while keeping the form hosted by Google.