An option for user field to be hidden in sign up

[hnaseri (Hosein Naseri)]

We want some user fields that are specific to our own administration needs. We don’t want the user to see them in sign up. However it seems there is no such option right now.

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

Can’t you hide them with CSS?

[hnaseri (Hosein Naseri)]

I didn’t try. Does it hide a specific user field or all of them?

[tophee (Christoph)]

See here:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-custom-user-field-from-registration-form/30636/15?u=tophee

Also here:

Differentiate user fields on signup form better

Don’t forget the accept invite page… As an aside: Generally speaking I’d say this is something that can be done via CSS but targeting the user fields isn’t always as easy as it could be, especially if a tick-box user field is involved and even more so if you want to target a specific field rather than all of them. So it would be great if each user field could have its own fixed id. And if you change something in the html here, it would probably be a good idea to put each user field into its o…

[John_Waltrip1 (John Waltrip)]

I’d like to see this as well, I accidentally hit the Sign Up button on our forum and was presented with a daunting list of custom user fields, not realizing our customizations had been added to the registration process! I got the CSS hack to work, but would a more elegant solution would be when creating the fields, to have the ability to hide them on signup.