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Should required fields be marked?

by Akcium on 5/27/25, 1:15 PM with 1 comments

• by potato-peeler on 5/27/25, 4:16 PM

  > Such forms as login, credit cards and probably some other common forms that are already become very common don't need this over-explanation.

  Because login forms already have your information and want you to confirm it.

  Sign up forms have so many fields because they don’t know about you. They use asterisk to indicate minimum level of info needed to provide you the service.