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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

Table of Contents

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.

Markdown links should only be used in survey text and detail text (as opposed to titles and footers).

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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