# Why is the dynamic text curly braces showing on my live form?

**URL:** <https://community.feathery.io/t/why-is-the-dynamic-text-curly-braces-showing-on-my-live-form/329>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 12, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.feathery.io/t/why-is-the-dynamic-text-curly-braces-showing-on-my-live-form/329 "2023-12-12T22:24:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![spritt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@spritt](https://community.feathery.io/u/spritt)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.feathery.io/t/why-is-the-dynamic-text-curly-braces-showing-on-my-live-form/329/1 "2023-12-12T22:24:11Z")

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I’m using Dynamic Text to show the amount selected for a donation but when someone first lands on the page they see “{{display-cost-1}}”. The form is also NOT displaying the text above the Dynamic text until the user has selected a donation amount. “Yes, I’d like to sponsor Free Press’ 20th-Anniversary Celebration!”

> **[Free Press’ 20th-Anniversary Celebration Sponsorship](https://form.feathery.io/to/yLiCrZ?_id=35e9986a-6e19-4148-8a91-ff26434fb251)**
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> Powerful, pixel-perfect forms without code

I’m using the dynamic text to display the amount because I don’t like seeing the cents when I use “Stripe: Cart Grand Total” for the Text source.

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**Author:** ![peter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.feathery.io/peter/32/7_2.png) [@peter](https://community.feathery.io/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://community.feathery.io/t/why-is-the-dynamic-text-curly-braces-showing-on-my-live-form/329/2 "2023-12-13T03:02:19Z")

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When your form loads, hidden values aren’t set by default so the placeholder shows instead. For example, you can initialize the values on load with a custom logic rule that runs when the step is loaded