How to Add Help Text in Salesforce

Quick summary

Adding help text to a Salesforce field lets you display inline guidance to users directly on record pages. You can configure this in the Object Manager under Setup without writing any code.

Steps

1. Go to Setup and open the Object Manager.
2. Select the object where you want to add help text, such as Contact or Opportunity.
3. Click on Fields and Relationships.
4. Click on the specific field you want to add help text to, for example the Website field.
5. Click Edit to open the field settings.
6. Enter your desired help text in the provided area — you can use up to 510 characters.
7. Click Save to apply your changes.