Thursday, May 26, 2005

Embedding HTML code in your survey

Survey Galaxy allows you to include HTML code in your survey as an unsupported feature but what exactly does unsupported mean?

HTML code is the language that generally allows content be displayed on websites. Simple HTML code can be used to make text bold or italic or both.

The reason that Survey Galaxy allows HTML code but does not support it is because HTML code allows you to do some very clever things so it is a very useful and powerful feature that we feel should be available, but if the HTML coding is written incorrectly it could equally mess up the survey and since we are in the online survey business and not offering HTML programming tutorials we feel that a line has to be drawn.

Basic HTML is very simple, and generally the code is very forgiving so if the coding was incorrect it is unlikely that anything serious would occur - if HTML code is added that prevents the survey from being displayed Survey Galaxy will usually be able to recover the survey on request.

We would encourage people to experiment with some basic HTML or if they want to know how to do a specific action use the Help support option and we will offer some specific guidance.

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