Formatting
You can use a combination of Markdown and HTML to format the text in a question or choice label. There is quite a bit of duplication between them but you can use whichever approach you are most comfortable with.
Using Markdown
Headers:
# Header H1
## Header H2
### Header H3
#### Header H4
##### Header H5
###### Header H6
Bold:
Surround the text with **
**Text to be marked as bold**
Italics:
Surround the text with *
*Text to be shown in italics*
Escaping Markdown
The problem with using markdown is that if you want to use a # or a * as part of your label then you might find it disappears and the label gets reformatted. To resolve this put a “\” in front of:
#
_
*
HTML
Highlight |
command |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|---|
Heading 1 |
<h1></h1> |
Create a top level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h1>Section 1</h1> |
Heading 2 |
<h2></h2> |
Create a second level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h2>Section 1.1</h2> |
Heading 3 |
<h3></h3> |
Create a third level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h3>Section 1.1.1</h3> |
Heading 4 |
<h4></h4> |
Create a fourth level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h4>Section 1.1.1.1</h4> |
Heading 5 |
<h5></h5> |
Create a fifth level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h5>Section 1.1.1.1.1</h5> |
Heading 6 |
<h6></h6> |
Create a sixth level heading. The text becomes large and bold. |
<h6>Section 1.1.1.1.1.1</h6> |
Color |
<font color="red"></font> |
The text between the font's will be red. |
<font color="red">Here is some red text</font> |
Font style |
<font face="cursive"></font> |
The text between the font's will be in cursive font |
<font face="cursive" color="#f58a1f">Text in cursive font with the specified color</font> |
New Line |
<br/> |
Adds a new line to the text. Without the <br/> the following text will appear on the same line even if you press carriage return. |
Line 1<br/> Line 2 |
Link |
[a link](http://example.com) |
Add a selectable link to a web page. If the phone is connected to a network then the user can use this to look up some help or other reference material. |
a link |
Center a heading |
Add 'style="text-align: center"' to the heading |
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Health Section</h2> |
|
Blue Heading 1 |
<h1><font color="blue">New Section</font></h1> |
You can combine style commands as shown here. Note that the <h1> command has to be outside of the <font> command otherwise the color will remain black. |
Note
Any HTML entered will be "sanitised" to remove "unsafe" commands
Example
The following example survey combines both markdown and HTML. Formatting labels