Contact Form 7 - Cannot get rid of 'send' from submit button

Question

I've been looking around and everyone says the solution is to take "send" out of the following code:

if ( empty( $value ) ) $value = __('send', 'wpcf7');

That's the first thing I did after I replaced my submit button with an image but 'Send' is still overlaid the submit button image, and I'm at a loss as to what to do. This is what my CSS code looks like:

/* Shortcode handler */

add_action( 'init', 'wpcf7_add_shortcode_submit', 5 );

function wpcf7_add_shortcode_submit() {
wpcf7_add_shortcode( 'submit', 'wpcf7_submit_shortcode_handler' );
}

function wpcf7_submit_shortcode_handler( $tag ) {
$tag = new WPCF7_Shortcode( $tag );

$class = wpcf7_form_controls_class( $tag->type );

$atts = array();

$atts['class'] = $tag->get_class_option( $class );
$atts['id'] = $tag->get_option( 'id', 'id', true );
$atts['tabindex'] = $tag->get_option( 'tabindex', 'int', true );

$value = isset( $tag->values[0] ) ? $tag->values[0] : '';

if ( empty( $value ) )
    $value = __(' ', 'wpcf7');


$atts['class'] = 'button';
$atts['type'] = 'submit';
$atts['value'] = $value;

$atts = wpcf7_format_atts( $atts );

$html = sprintf( '<input %1$s />', $atts );

return $html;
}

NB: I've taken "send" out, leaving a space like ' ' instead of '', in fact I've tried every combination but nothing.

Would it have to do with how I created the submit button image? In the latest version of CF7 I had to add $atts['class'] = 'button'; into my submit.php before adding the following into my CSS

.button {
background-image: url("imageurl.gif");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
height: 35px;
width: 133px;
border: 0 none;
cursor: pointer;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

No Need to touch the code to change the message of the submit button. Go into your wp dashboard < Contact and change this line

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

to

<p>[submit "Anything you would like here"]</p>

Answer 2

If you're looking for a blank button using Contact Form 7

[submit " "]

Answer 3

Trial and error.

Replace everywhere it says "Submit" with something else like "Test" and change each one until it works. Then you will know exactly which one to change.

Answer 4

In the the latest version (at the time of writing) in modules submit.php

At line 27 Change

if ( empty( $value ) )
        $value = __( 'Send', 'contact-form-7' );

to

if ( empty( $value ) )
        $value = __( ' ', 'contact-form-7' );