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How to Use Bold, Headlines, & Italics in Survey Text

Make your survey text more captivating and visually appealing with text formatting options in Qualaroo. With markdown support, you can effortlessly apply bold or italic styles to your text and utilize eye-catching headings in question descriptions and message screens.

By leveraging markdown syntax, you can seamlessly convert your text into HTML code, ensuring a seamless and efficient writing experience.

Benefits of Markdown editor:

Format text content without any HTML or CSS syntax
Personalize your text with simple markdown syntax
Easy to use

A few examples of Markdown syntax:

Enter “##YOUR TEXT” in the text editor to format the survey text into a heading.

format text into heading

Here's how it will appear on your survey.

survey with a heading text

To bold a survey text, enter “**YOUR TEXT**.”

bold the survey text

Here's how it will appear on your survey:

survey text formatted into bold

To italicize the survey text, enter *YOUR TEXT*

italicize the text

Here's how it will appear on your survey.

text formatted to italics

In this article, you will learn:

1. How to Customize Your Question Text

2. How to Customize Your Message Screen

3. How to Add Markdown to Text

4. How to Preview Markdown in Your Survey/Nudge

How to Customize Your Question Description Text

Step 1: Tick the ‘Display a description’ checkbox below your question text in your survey editor.

Checking the 'Display a description' box

Step 2: Add a description to your question in the box.

Step 3: To customize your text into a header, use ‘#’ before the text.

Adding the description

You can see the preview of your question description like this.

Preview of Question Description'

How to Customize Your Message Screen

Step 1: Enter the message in your text editor.

Step 2: To format your text into italics, enter *your message* in the markup editor.

Customizing the message screen

Your customized message will look like this.

Customized Message Screen

How to Add Markdown to Text

The text in your survey is centrally aligned by default. This table shows examples of using markdown to add formatting to your surveys, including links and images.

Markdown Syntax

Note: These examples demonstrate one way you can add specific formatting. There might also be additional ways you can achieve the same configuration.

You can add other formatting options with markdown. For more options and information, see the complete Markdown syntax documentation. Some of these are not supported by Qualaroo.

How to Preview Markdown in Your Survey or Nudge

You can preview your markdown formatting from the survey preview screen or nudge before saving your changes.

Images note: Images can be in .jpg, .gif, or .png format and should be limited to 250 pixels wide. If you choose an image size wider than this constraint, it will be automatically resized to fit, resulting in unwanted image compression.

And that's it! If you encounter any issues or have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

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