I want to display something like this in an HTML block on my form:
<h3>Nice to meet you {Name (First):1.3}. Now that we have introduced ourselfs let's continue.</h3>
However, the form will render with "{Name (First):1.3}" without pulling the first name from the field that was filled out. Is this possible to do? Thanks!
Using a merge tag in the form will not work because the form has not yet been submitted. There is no value to put into the HTML field. To echo information back to the visitor after they fill out a form, you will need to use jQuery. Gravity Forms can't help with it because the form has not yet been submitted.
You could use two forms and capture the name in form one, then after they submit the first form, direct them to form two, and pre-populate the field using information from form 1.
