Using the HTML Editor

Whenever you are required to enter text in SurveyWriter, the HTML Editor appears. Use this full-featured HTML editor to enter and format the following types of text:

Question - This is the actual text for the question that will appear in the questionnaire. Question text is limited to 1000 characters. If you need to make a question longer than 1000 characters, you can use the question header option. If you need special formatting for your question text, use standard HTML tags.
Header - Use this option to add text, such as a section title, instructions, or more question text. The text you enter in this field appears at the top of the page for this question.
Footer - Use this option to add text to the bottom of the page. Footers can be used for footnotes, to provide information about the questions to follow, or as instructions to the respondent.

Note: You can also use the HTML Editor to format responses, closing pages, and any other miscellaneous messages that make up your survey.

You can enter text in Normal mode, which formats the text but does not display the underlying HTML code. You can also enter text in HTML mode, which displays the raw HTML into which you can add any formatting you want.

Select the font and size of the text from the dropdown menus.

You can enter text directly into the HTML Editor, or you can cut and paste existing text. If you want to preserve the formatting of text you are pasting into the HTML Editor window, click Paste Special. If you do not select this option, text is pasted in as Text Only, without its original formatting.

When you are finished entering text, click Save.

The following options are available from the toolbar.

	Bold text		Undo last operation
	Italicize text		Redo last operation
	Underline text		Delete
	Superscript text		Bullet text
	Subscript text		Number text
	Left justify text		Insert ruler line
	Center text		Choose font color
	Right justify text		Remove formatting
	Move paragraph right		Cut
	Move paragraph left		Copy
	Insert table		Paste
	Spell Check (Only available if Microsoft Word is installed on your machine)		Copy text from question...
	Insert image		Insert question ID When you run the survey, response data for the question replaces the Question ID in the text. Make sure to position the Question variable as desired in the text.
	Insert hyperlink This option also enables you to link to images uploaded to SurveyWriter at the project and account level.		Insert special characters: \| :: � � ™ � � � � � � � • �
	Remove hyperlink		Insert video Not yet online.

Entering HTML Manually

If you need to customize the formatting of a question, you can insert HTML tags directly into the text.

Example: To underline the words "most often" in the following question you would insert the underline tag directly before the word most. When you want to stop underlining you would use the closing tag . The second example shows you how to change the color of a word to red. It may be helpful to purchase a book on HTML editing if you plan on doing a lot of customization. Text may also be formatted in an HTML editor like Microsoft's FrontPage and then pasted directly into the HTML Editor window.

Please choose the soft drink you purchase most often

Please choose the soft drink you purchase most often