A CAPTCHA requests that users complete simple challenges to help protect your forms against spammers and spambots that are programmed to attack websites flooding by them with tons of unwanted information.
You can add a CAPTCHA to your form by following the steps below:
- Click the Add Form Element button in the Form Builder.
- Find the CAPTCHA element under Basic Elements.
- Drag and drop the element into your form.
Jotform has three types of CAPTCHAs: hCAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, and JotCAPTCHA. You can change the CAPTCHA type from the element’s Properties panel.
What is hCAPTCHA?
hCAPTCHA is another form of CAPTCHA specializing in deep learning and visual domain machine learning at scale, focusing on securing online systems from increasingly sophisticated modern threats. hCAPTCHA is the default CAPTCHA for Jotform.
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious bots from engaging in abusive activities on your forms. With reCAPTCHA, you can toggle to use the Google Invisible reCAPTCHA. Invisible reCAPTCHA is Google’s improved CAPTCHA system, which can differentiate humans from bots without additional input from the user. Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA will only activate when the user’s browsing patterns are, in some way, suspicious.
To use Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA, please follow these steps:
- In the Captcha Properties panel, select the reCAPTCHA option.
- Toggle Use Google Invisible reCAPTCHA to “On” if you wish reCAPTCHA to be hidden. You can also toggle to display the badge.
What is JotCAPTCHA?
JotCAPTCHA is Jotform’s very own CAPTCHA alternative. If you want to use a simple CAPTCHA where users only enter a text from the provided image, you can switch to JotCAPTCHA.
Note
If your users entered the correct JotCAPTCHA, the form should submit right away. However, if the user entered an incorrect JotCAPTCHA, the form will redirect them to a separate page with the reCAPTCHA as secondary validation. They have to proceed with the reCAPTCHA prompt and click the submit button on the page.
When you add a CAPTCHA to your form, it’s automatically set to “required”.
We also have some advanced CAPTCHA widgets that you can use. You can check them below:
How did it go? Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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6 Comments:
359 days ago
In our enterprise Jotform account we see only reCAPTCHA and JotCaptcha, no hCaptcha. I don't need it, just wondering why we don't see it. I advise one of our teams that have their own Bronze account, wanted to know what options they have.
More than a year ago
Hello. I have updated a form on our account and added the reCAPTCHA with the invisible option.
The issue is that even though I have approved/asses this to the form, it is requiring it separately upon submission of the form and I cannot figure out how to turn it off.
Can I please get assistance as it has created a challenge for some registering through the form? I could not find any information about this secondary CAPTCHA and how to turn it on or off.
More than a year ago
Hi, I haven't asked for a captcha, but now one appears every time someone tries to submit a form. How can I remove this requirement?
More than a year ago
I don't have captcha element on my form, but the form is presenting the captcha requirement. How do I remove it?
More than a year ago
how can i remove the captcha from showing up. I have not selected this form element but still shows up to form fillers to allow submit
More than a year ago
Hi Team,
pls delete my account from hcaptch