# Custom User Field auto-filled on creation?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656 "2018-04-18T19:54:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Denis\_Heraud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denis_heraud/32/119623_2.png) [@Denis\_Heraud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Heraud)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656/1 "2018-04-18T19:54:55Z")

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I created my first Custom User Field (text, see screenshot) but somehow it got auto-filled to “No”… Why does that happen, and how can create a field without it being assigned a value? Until users fill them out I would much rather it be blank (as “No” doesn’t even makes sense in this case).

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656/2 "2018-04-19T08:06:46Z")

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> [@Denis\_Heraud](#):
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> somehow it got auto-filled to “No”

Do you mean that your browser auto-filled the text field with “No”? If so, maybe looks at your browser’s auto-fill configuration?

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### Author: ![Denis\_Heraud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denis_heraud/32/119623_2.png) [@Denis\_Heraud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Heraud)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656/3 "2018-04-19T12:33:34Z")

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> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Do you mean that your browser auto-filled the text field with “No”? If so, maybe looks at your browser’s auto-fill configuration?

No, it didn’t, I even impersonated another user to make sure, and sure enough when I went into their profile preferences, it said “No”… Here is a screenshot, I just logged in as another user and didn’t even click on the field and it was already populated.

 ![Capture5](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/71fa62693caff39287ca989ca90309afef819ef1.PNG)

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### Author: ![Denis\_Heraud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denis_heraud/32/119623_2.png) [@Denis\_Heraud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Heraud)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656/4 "2018-04-19T12:40:57Z")

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And here are the original field settings when I created it.

 ![Capture4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/c/7ca5fbe89dc779564cde10d6a20e2ed9c084431b.PNG)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-user-field-auto-filled-on-creation/85656/6 "2020-09-13T14:43:10Z")

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