### [Adding a Terms of Service Checkbox](https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-add-a-terms-of-service-checkbox-to-a-form/)

**Published:** November 16, 2023
**Author:** Umair Majeed

**Excerpt:** Learn how to ask visitors to accept your ToS before they submit your form.

**Content:**

Would you like to require that users read and agree to your Terms of Service or Disclaimer before they are allowed to submit a form?

This tutorial will share two easy ways to create a required agreement checkbox.

- [Adding a Terms of Service Checkbox](#checkbox)
- [Adding a Link to a Separate Terms of Service Document](#link)
- [Adding Terms of Service Text Directly to a Form](#text)

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## Adding a Terms of Service Checkbox

To get started, you’ll need to either [create a new form](https://wpforms.com/docs/creating-first-form/ "How to Create Your First Form") or edit an existing form.

Want to use a customizable form template to speed up your form creation process? Check out our [Terms of Services Form Template](https://wpforms.com/templates/terms-of-service-contact-form-template/).

Once the form builder is open and you’ve added the fields you’d like, we’ll add a **Checkboxes** field.

![Add checkboxes to form](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Add-checkboxes-to-form.png)By default, this field will display three checkbox options. We only want one checkbox choice in our form, so we’ll remove the other two by clicking on the **Checkboxes** field to open the Field Options screen. Then we just need to click the minus buttons (-) to the right of each choice we want to remove.

![Remove checkboxes](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Remove-checkboxes.png)We also want to hide the Checkboxes field label. To do this, click on the **Advanced** tab and select the **Hide Label** option.

![Hide label for checkboxes field](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Hide-label-for-checkboxes-field.png)Next, we want to add descriptive text to our one checkbox option. For this example, we’ll use the text “I have read and agree to the Terms of Service”.

![add-text-to-choices-label](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/add-text-to-choices-label.png)We’ll also mark this field as **Required** to ensure our users must check this box before proceeding.

![Make checkboxes field as required](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/enable-required-field.png)Next, we’ll go over two different ways to add text to your Terms of Service.

The first option will create text that, when clicked, downloads a Terms of Service document. The second option will show you how to add your terms/disclaimer text directly to the form (no download needed), with special text formatting.

## Adding a Link to a Separate Terms of Service Document

Now that we’ve got our checkbox and text ready to go, we need a document to link our text to. Either save and exit your form or open a new tab to go to your WordPress dashboard. Click on **Media » Add New** to upload your Terms of Service file to your WordPress Media Library.

If you either upload a new document or click on media you already uploaded, you’ll see a field for that item’s URL.

![Find URL for image in WordPress Media Library](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Find-URL-for-image-in-WordPress-Media-Library.png)You’ll need to copy this URL and return to your form builder.

To create a link to this document, you’ll need to modify your choices text to include some basic HTML. For our example, we will only link the words “Terms of Service”:

```

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service
```

Be sure to add this HTML directly to the choices text field.

![add-html-to-choices-text](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/add-html-to-choices-text.png)Most browsers will, by default, open this link in the same browser tab where the user is filling out our form. To force our Terms of Service document to open in a new browser tab or window, we’ll add `target="_blank"` inside of our a tag.

Here’s how our final HTML will look:

```

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service
```

If you check out the form preview on the right side of the builder, or embed your form and look at it on the frontend, you’ll notice that any text between the HTML tags will be seen as linked text.

![Sign up form with terms of service](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sign-up-form-with-terms-of-service-agreement.png)Next, let’s take a look at how to add your Terms of Service text directly to the form, rather than linking to a separate document.

## Adding Terms of Service Text Directly to a Form

For this option, we’ll start by changing the checkbox text to “I have read and agree to the terms of service listed below.”

![add-text-to-choices-label](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/add-text-to-choices-label.png)Then, you can add your terms or disclaimer text to the **Description** area. The Description area accepts regular text as well as HTML.

![Terms of Service description text](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/add-html-to-description.png)Once the description text is ready, we can add special formatting. To do this, you’ll need to open the **Advanced** section. Then you can select the option labeled **Enable Disclaimer / Terms of Service Display**.

![Enable disclaimer terms of service display](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Enable-disclaimer-terms-of-service-display.png)Once this option is checked, the description text will be placed into a specially formatted box with a vertical scroll bar.

![Terms of Service frontend example](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Terms-of-Service-frontend-example-1.png)For an interactive approach, check out our [developer documentation](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-enable-a-checkbox-after-reading-disclaimer/) on enabling a checkbox only after users have scrolled through the entire disclaimer text.

That’s it! We hope this tutorial helped you to require users to agree your Terms of Service document before submitting a form.

Next, would you like to customize your form notification emails? Be sure to check out [our tutorial on setting up automatic form emails](https://wpforms.com/docs/setup-form-notification-wpforms/ "How to Set Up Form Notification Emails in WPForms") for all the details.

**Categories:** Fields, Field Customizations

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