n8n Form Trigger nodeConfigure the form that opens your workflow.

The form is a public web page by default, so this selector is the first decision to make. It applies to both URLs of the node and changes nothing else in the output.

• Authentication: sits at the top of the panel and drives whether a login prompt appears.
• Basic Auth: the value basicAuth, backed by a credential with a Username and a Password.
• None: the value none, anyone with the link loads the page.

Required, and the visitor reads it twice: n8n uses it as the browser tab title and as the main h1 heading of the page. Leave it empty and the node refuses to run.

• Form Title: a string shown at the top of the form, with a placeholder of e.g. Contact us in the panel.

Optional subtitle printed under the title, useful when the form needs one sentence of instructions before the first box. It accepts HTML, which makes it more than a caption.

• Form Description: a string rendered below the h1; \n or <br> adds a line break, and <script>, <style> and <input> tags are stripped.

This is the key the rest of the workflow reads. n8n puts it in the input attributes of the rendered element and in the node output, where you reach the answer with {{ $json.email }} (an expression pulls a value from the incoming item).

• Field Name: a required string, the name referenced by the workflow.

What the visitor actually reads above the input. It is the human half of a field, the counterpart to the machine-facing name, and it is required on every element.

• Label: a required string displayed above the input, with the panel suggesting e.g. What is your name?.

Required on each element, and it decides what the browser renders and which other settings appear underneath.

• Element Type: twelve values, from text (Text Input) and textarea to email, number, password and date.
• Dropdown, Radio Buttons, Checkboxes: the choice elements, each fed by its own list of options.
• File, Custom HTML, Hidden Field: upload, free markup and a value carried without being shown.

Only relevant to a Custom HTML element. By default that markup is decoration and never reaches the workflow; filling this field is what puts it in the node output.

• Element Name: an optional string, suggested as e.g. content-section, used to include the HTML in the output.

Grey sample text inside the box, gone as soon as the visitor types. It is a hint about format, not a value, and nothing reaches the workflow if the field stays empty.

• Placeholder: an optional string shown inside the field, supported on Email, Number, Password, Text and Textarea.

Unlike a placeholder, this one is a real value: the field arrives pre-filled or pre-selected, and the visitor submits it untouched if it already fits.

• Default Value: an optional string, supported on every element except Custom HTML, File, Hidden Field and Password.

The companion of a Hidden Field, which the visitor never sees. Set it here and the value is fixed; leave it empty and the URL supplies it through a query parameter matching the field name.

• Field Value: an optional string; without it the value is passed as a query parameter via Field Name.

The list a choice element offers. It is required as soon as the element expects options, and you add entries one by one in the panel.

• Field Options: a required collection, opened with Add Field Option, listing what can be selected from the dropdown.
• Option: one string per entry, the text the visitor sees and the value the workflow receives.

A dropdown is single-choice out of the box. Turning this on lets the visitor pick several options from the same list, and the answer stops being a single string.

• Multiple Choice: a boolean allowing the user to select multiple options from the dropdown list.

Checkboxes have no ceiling by default: tick them all and the form accepts it. This selector is where you put a rule on how many boxes count.

• Limit Selection: exact (Exact Number), range (Range) or unlimited (Unlimited).

The figure that goes with the Exact Number rule. It appears once that value is chosen and turns the checkbox group into a fixed-size answer.

• Number of Selections: a number, the exact count of boxes the visitor must tick.

The floor of the Range rule. It stops the empty answer, the one where someone submits a checkbox group without ticking anything at all.

• Minimum Selections: a number, the smallest count accepted by the form.

The ceiling of the same Range rule, and the one that protects what happens downstream when a generous visitor ticks everything.

• Maximum Selections: a number, the largest count the form accepts.

The content of a Custom HTML element: free markup dropped between two questions, for a notice, an image or a link the visitor should read before answering.

• HTML: a string of elements displayed on the form page; <script>, <style> and <input> tags are not accepted.

Belongs to a File element and governs the picker: one document at a time, or a whole selection in a single submission.

• Multiple Files: a boolean allowing the user to select multiple files from the file input or just one.

The filter on what the picker will offer. Left empty, the form takes anything the visitor drags in, which is rarely what the workflow behind it expects.

• Accepted File Types: a comma-separated list of allowed extensions, suggested as e.g. .jpg, .png; empty means all types.

Validation handled by the browser before anything reaches n8n: the submit button will not go through while a required box is empty.

• Required Field: a boolean requiring the user to enter a value before submitting the form.

Controls the moment the visitor sees a confirmation, which is also the moment their browser stops waiting.

• Form Is Submitted: onReceived, the response leaves as soon as the node receives the submission.
• Workflow Finishes: lastNode, the response waits for the last node, and an error tells the visitor there was a problem submitting the form.

Lives in the Options collection, which you open with Add Option; each option you add shows up as one more field in the panel, and the ones you skip keep their default.

• Append n8n Attribution: a boolean controlling the "Form automated with n8n" link at the bottom of the form.

A network-level filter that sits in front of the form, independent of any login prompt. Empty, it allows every address.

• IP(s) Allowlist: a comma-separated list of addresses or CIDR ranges, suggested as e.g. 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0/24.

Another entry of the Options collection, and the smallest one with a visible effect: the text on the button that ends the form.

• Button Label: a string used as the label of the submit button.

By default the form URL ends with a generated identifier. Filling this option replaces that last component with a slug of your choosing, for the test address as well as the production one.

• Form Path: the final segment of the form's URL, both for test and production, suggested in the field as webhook.

What the browser shows once a submission goes through is set here, in a collection opened with Add option.

• Respond With: text (Form Submitted Text) shows a response text to the user, redirect (Redirect URL) redirects the user to a URL.
• Text to Show: the text displayed to users after they fill the form, left empty when no additional text is wanted.
• URL to Redirect to: where users land after filling the form, which must be a valid URL, shown as e.g. http://www.n8n.io.

As soon as a public address circulates, link previewers and web crawlers fetch it. Turned on, this setting drops those requests instead of opening an execution.

• Ignore Bots: a toggle for whether to ignore requests from bots like link previewers and web crawlers.

Every submission carries a submittedAt timestamp. This toggle picks the clock that writes it, and nothing else in the output moves.

• Use Workflow Timezone: on, submittedAt follows the workflow timezone; off, it stays in UTC, which is the default.

The public interface arrives with its default look. This field takes CSS that overrides it, and it opens already filled with that default styling, so only what needs changing gets changed.

• Custom Form Styling: CSS that overrides the default styling of the public form interface.