How to Show Elements and Keystrokes in Data Collection

Hotjar suppresses all keystroke data by default, replacing text with asterisks("***"), quantity of orders/quantity field within shopping carts with "111", and date input fields as "01/01/1979". However, you can allow certain fields as long as they do not fall under our Allowing Restrictions.

To allow these elements and keystrokes, you will need to alter your site's HTML code and add the attribute data-hj-allow to them.

Data-hj-allow will not work recursively. This means that applying this attribute to a parent container will have no effect. You will need to apply this attribute to each individual field you wish to allow.

Apply the data-hj-allow attribute to your HTML.

<!--data-hj-allow can be appended as either an attribute or a class -->
  
  <!-- Allow and record any keystroke data typed in input fields -->
  <input name="code" type="text" data-hj-allow />
  <input class="form-control data-hj-allow" name="quantity" type="text" />
  
  <!-- Allow and record any keystroke data typed in textareas -->
  <textarea name="comment" data-hj-allow></textarea> 

  <textarea class="form-control data-hj-allow" name="comment"></textarea> 

Go to your site list.

Select the gear icon for your site to open the Site Settings.

Uncheck the Suppress keystroke data on allowed input fields box to allow the data to be recorded.

Once you have followed both steps, the allowed fields you selected in your code will now be recorded as long as they are not included in our Allowing Restrictions mentioned in the section below.

Allowing restrictions

Restrictions are in place which will prevent you from allowing fields with potentially sensitive personal information. These fields will always be suppressed by the Hotjar script, even if they are allowed.

Keystroke data will never be recorded or sent to our servers and is always suppressed for:

• Longer numbers, such as credit card and phone numbers: If a user enters 9 or more digits in sequence, Hotjar assumes that this is a Credit Card or Phone number so the data is suppressed. Although credit card numbers can be detected through an algorithm, we purposely chose to use a more basic method since an algorithm could fail to suppress a credit card number with an accidental typo.
• Email Addresses: If a user enters what appears to be an email address, the data is suppressed.
• Fields of a specific HTML Type: Any fields using one of the following HTML types - password, email
• Input fields with specific Names or IDs: Any input fields with an HTML Name or ID attribute equal to one of the following - username, name, firstname, surname, lastname, familyname, fullname, email, phone, ,cell, cellphone, telephone, tel, postcode, postalcode, zip, zipcode, mobile, address, ssn, security, securitynum, socialsec, socialsecuritynumber, socsec, ppsn, nationalinsurancenumber, nin, dob,dateofbirth, password, pass, adgangskode, authpw, contrasena, contrasenya, contrasinal, cyfrinair, contraseña, fjalëkalim, focalfaire, IP, creditcard, cc, ccnum, ccname, ccnumber, ccexpiry, ccexp, ccexpmonth, ccexpyear, cccvc, cccvv, cctype, cvc, cvv. For names and IDs, case and the symbols "-" and "_" are ignored.

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