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Formatting Survey Text

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You can format your surveys (e.g. add bold/italic text and hyperlinks) by adding special formatting codes. MyDataHelps Designer leverages both Markdown & HTML.

Markdown is supported for:

  • Step Title (except for Consent Steps)
  • Step Text
  • Step Detail Text
  • Footnote
  • Choice Text
  • Choice Answer Description Text

HTML is supported for:

  • Web View Steps
  • Consent Step Title
  • Consent Section Title
  • Consent Section Content

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Markdown

Description Formatting Example
Bold **bold text** bold text
Italics _italics text_ italics text
Link <http://example.com> http://example.com
Link (with title text) [Link Text](http://www.example.com) Link Text
Mail Link <user@example.com> user@example.com
Telephone Link [123-555-1234](tel: 123-555-1234) 123-55-1234
List Bullets

- Item 1
- Item 2
    - Item A
    - Item B
- Item 3

Note: You can use various Markdown list formats and indent items for multi-level lists.
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item A
    • Item B
  • Item 3

Note: Lists are only supported in multi-line fields, not titles and other inline text.
These formatting codes are based on Markdown formatting. Only a limited set of Markdown codes, shown in the table above, are supported at this time.

For example: Setting the step text to "It's the **most important** meal of the day." will be displayed as:

survey-formatting.png

 

HTML

Note: This is not a comphrensive list of all HTML commands, but rather covers the most common needs.

Description Formatting Example
Bold <b>bold text</b> bold text
Italics <i>italics text</i> italics text
Link (with title text)

<a href="http://www.example.com">Link Text</a>

Link Text
Mail Link

<a href="mailto:user@example.com">

user@example.com</a>

 user@example.com
Telephone Link <a href="tel: 123-555-1234")>123-555-1234</a> 123-555-1234
List Bullets

<ul>

  <li>Item 1</li>
  <li>Item 2</li>

  <ul>

     <li>Item A</li>

     <li>Item B</li>

   </ul>

  <li>Item 3

</ul>

Note: You can substitute <ul> and </ul> with <ol> and </ol> respectively to create a numbered list.
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item A
    • Item B
  • Item 3

Note: Lists are only supported in multi-line fields, not titles and other inline text.

Below is an example of using HTML formatting for a Consent Step:

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