How to Replace Field Components in Payload CMS

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In this video, I take a deep dive into replacing and customizing field components in Payload CMS. If you want more control over how your fields behave and appear in the admin UI, this tutorial walks you through all the critical aspects of field-level customization.

Whether you want to add icons, dynamically change labels, show validation errors, or inject extra logic into your inputs, this video shows you how to do it.

What you’ll learn in this video:
Field Component Replacement Basics:
Custom Field Input:
How to replace static labels with dynamic React components
Customizing array field row labels using data from within each item
Custom Descriptions
Building a real-time character counter for a text field
Custom Icons Before/After Inputs
Custom Validation Errors
Custom List View Cells
Turning the email field into a clickable mailto: link
Adding status icons (draft/published) to post titles

Chapters:
00:00 - Introducing Field Custom Components
01:12 - Where you can replace field components
02:39 - Default properties for field components
04:54 - Replacing the field custom component
09:53 - Replacing a label component
11:37 - Replacing row labels in a Payload CMS array field
14:42 - Adding a character counter using the Description custom component.
18:16 - Adding an icon before an input
19:32 - Adding custom styles to our icon using the className admin property
20:33 - Using afterInput
20:49 - Adding a custom field error
24:08 - Making an email field clickable from the Payload CMS list view
26:08 - Adding an icon to your Payload CMS list view
28:47 - Closing thoughts and next steps

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