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Address fields in a form

Asking for an address in a single text box gets you five different formats from five people. The address field gives each part its own labelled box, so people fill in what you actually need and nothing gets left out.

Create a form with OneCraftThe five parts, renaming them for your country, and the per-column export

An address field on a published form with street, unit, suburb, state and postcode boxes — The address field, with each part in its own labelled box.

The five parts

Street address, a second address line, suburb, state and postcode. Each one can be switched off if you do not need it, and each one can be renamed. That renaming is the part that makes this field usable outside one country: suburb becomes city, state becomes province or county, postcode becomes ZIP code. The data shape stays the same, only the labels change.

Why separate boxes beat one

A single address box relies on the respondent knowing what you need. Separate labelled boxes tell them, which is why postcodes stop going missing and unit numbers stop being appended to the street name. It also reads back consistently: every response has the same parts in the same order in the responses table and in the response PDF, rather than five different house styles.

What to leave off

The second address line is the one to consider dropping. It is genuinely needed for units, levels and care-of lines, and it is also the field people leave blank most often. Keep it if you deliver to apartments, drop it if you are collecting a billing address for records.

In the export

The whole address arrives as one column, with its parts joined by commas in a fixed order. That is worth knowing before you plan a mail merge: the parts are consistent, which makes splitting the column in a spreadsheet reliable, but the export does not do the splitting for you. If you need suburb as its own column from the start, ask for it as a separate dropdown or short text field alongside the address.

How it works, in three steps

Step 1
Add the address field
One component covers all five parts. Put it after the contact details rather than in the middle of them.
Step 2
Rename the parts for your audience
Suburb, state and postcode are the labels to change first if your respondents are not in Australia.
Step 3
Turn off what you do not need
Each part can be switched off. Fewer boxes means fewer abandoned forms.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Every form field and when to use it.

Limits worth knowing

There is no address autocomplete or lookup. People type the address.
The export gives one column with the parts joined by commas, not a column per part.
There is no country field inside the component. Add a separate dropdown if you collect from several countries.
No validation of a postcode against a suburb.

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Questions people ask

Does it autocomplete addresses?

No. It gives you clean, separated parts rather than a lookup, so people type the address themselves.

Can I use it outside Australia?

Yes. Rename suburb to city, state to province or county, and postcode to ZIP code. The parts stay the same underneath.

How does an address export?

As one column with the parts joined by commas in a fixed order. Because the order is always the same, splitting that column in a spreadsheet is reliable, but you have to do the splitting.

Make your own form

The button opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match yours, generate, then edit anything you like.

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