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How to Add Headings & Text Blocks to a Form

Headings

You can now use headings to create logical sections within your forms. For example, you might need a Contact Details or Past Employment section. To add a heading, select the Heading widget in the Fields tab of the form builder. The new field’s description will become the text of the heading.

Text Block Widget

We’ve also added a text block widget that allows you to insert text of up to 250 characters anywhere within a form. Example uses include:

• Instructions for individual form sections
• Question or sentence introducing a group of check boxes
• Disclaimer at the bottom of a form

Text Blocks support some text formatting (bold and italics) and — most importantly — links.

To add a text block to a form, select the Text Block widget in the Fields tab of the form builder. We’ve increased the maximum number of fields that can be added to a form to allow all users to take advantage of this new facility.

Links and Formatting in Text Blocks

You may sometimes need to insert links in a form. For example, to provide a link to your terms of service or privacy policy, or to refer to an external document within a form. The form builder now allows you to insert links and specify bold text and italics in Text Blocks using the following wiki-style syntax:

• Links open in a new window
• Linking and formatting constructs can’t be nested. So, you can’t have a link in bold or text in bold and italics.
• Check out this example.
• Links and formatting are available with FormSmarts Pro and FormSmarts Business plans.

Give Feedback!

We welcome your feedback about headings and text blocks. If you would like to give feedback about (or suggest we add) another feature, visit the forum on our Facebook page. We read and reply to all posts.

Posted by FormSmarts on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 10:52 am in form builder.
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