How to change choice field “allow fill-in choice” default text ‘Specify your own value:’ to custom text?
- Open default.master (found in the _catalogs\masterpages folder) in SharePoint Designer.
- Before the </HEAD> end tag I added the following js code:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function changeSpecifyOwnValue() {
var node_list = document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’);
for (var i = 0; i < node_list.length; i++) {
var node = node_list[i ]; // NOTE: there is a space here after the i, if not a lightbulb was added… delete this
if (((node.getAttribute(‘type’) == ‘radio’) && (node.getAttribute(‘value’) != ‘DropDownButton’)) || (node.getAttribute(‘type’) == ‘checkbox’)) {
if (node.nextSibling.innerHTML==”Specify your own value:”) {
node.nextSibling.innerHTML = “Other:”;
}
}
}
}
</script>
After this I added the function above to be executed in the body onload, below is the sample usgae:
<BODY scroll=”yes” onload=”javascript:if (typeof(_spBodyOnLoadWrapper) != ‘undefined’) _spBodyOnLoadWrapper(); changeSpecifyOwnValue();”>
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