Text & Multiline Text.

Text questions allow respondents to write free text answers in response to a question or prompt. This is helpful for when you can't predict what answer your respondents will give, or you don't want to provide set answers. You only want natural responses.

To create a Text question:

Go to the Build tab
Click +Add Question/Section and pick either 'Text' or 'Multiline Text'
Enter the question and click 'Save & Close'.

Text Editor

Within your text editor, you can also:

Add a question image
Edit the number of fields to show multiple fields instead of 1 field
- 3 is great for top-of-mind awareness
- 10 is great for unprompted brand awareness
"Minimum required fields" allows you to force respondents to answer a minimum number of text fields. Default is set to 1.
If Text validation is on, then "Minimum characters" allows you to force respondents to input a minimum number of characters per text field.

Validation Types

Within the Text question type, there are 4 validation types.

Text validation - respondents can input anything they like, although you can force a minimum number of characters.
Email validation - respondents must input a valid email address.
Numeric validation - respondents must input a number, not text. Numbers can be negative.
Numeric range validation - respondents must input a number within your specified range.

Within Numeric validation, you can also set:

a Prefix, which appears in front of the text box, e.g. '$'
a Suffix, which appears after the text box, e.g. 'p/Month' or '%'

Did you know? You can pipe in Variables like {{ QX }} or {{ variable:key }} in your Range Minimum, Range Maximum, Prefix, and Suffix fields! For example, you could inject {{ variable:currency }} in the Prefix field to pipe in $ or £ or € depending on which country the respondent is from.

Text Preview

Text is perfect for capturing brief responses that fit on a single line.

If the text reaches the end of the box, it will scroll right to continue typing on the same line

Multiline Text: a big field for detailed answers. If the text reaches the end of the box, it will wrap to the next line, so respondents can see their full answer.

Multiple Fields: below we have 10 text fields, with a text validation of minimum 3 characters. This is perfect for unprompted awareness questions.

Text with Numeric Validation: when numeric validation is enabled, users must input a number (can be negative) into the field, they can't input text. We've also added a '$' prefix and 'p/Month' suffix.