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title: Provide meaningful help with your form
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Learn about the tools you can use to guide your visitors through your form to ensure it’s easy to fill in.

> **Info:** Let's add some hints to the form fields to make your forms more accessible and user-friendly.

1. Go to the **Forms** application.
2. Find the form you need to adjust.
3. Adjust one or more of the field's properties to ensure you guide your site's visitors through the form:

   1. Set a **Default value** when it fits the majority of your visitors. The visitor can replace default values with their input. _You can also fill in personalized default valuesdynamically with custom development_\*.\*\*\*
   2. Use **Explanation text** to provide additional information vital for improving form experience. The Explanation text shows below the field.
   3. Add a brief **Tooltip** to provide additional context. The _Tooltip_ appears when a visitor interacts with the form. It shouldn't contain any vital information necessary for submitting the field.
   4. Consider if your fields need a **Placeholder**. Placeholder text is usually displayed in a lighter color in the field and disappears when a visitor interacts with the field.

> **Tip:** Find out more why [placeholders in forms fields are harmful](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/) in an article by [Nielsen Norman Group](https://www.nngroup.com/).

### Next step

Set up [what happens after form submission](https://docs.kentico.com/guides/digital-marketing/work-with-forms/set-what-happens-after-form-submission.md).