Button question properties

Set the appearance and behavior of Single Choice or Multi Choice Button questions.

Answer order

You can automatically change the answer order in which participants see answers. You can either have the answer displayed in a different, random order each time the question is presented or you can rotate the answers each time the question is presented to a participant.

To randomize or rotate the answers, use the Answer order property. The Answer order property has three options:

  • As Authored: all participants see the answers in the order that they were created.
  • Randomize: each participant sees a random order of answers.
  • Rotate: each time the question is displayed to participants, the answer order is rotated.

Randomize

The following images illustrate how randomization works with a Buttons question. The answers are randomly arranged each time the question is shown to a new participant.

1st Randomization 2nd Randomization 3rd Randomization

Rotate

The images below illustrate how rotation works with a Buttons question. The answers rotate left one position each time the question is presented to a new participant.

1st Rotation 2nd Rotation 3rd Rotation

Framing the buttons

You can decide whether to have a button frame, or outline, around each answer option. Select the Use Button Frame check box include a frame around each answer option or clear it to exclude the frames.

Note:
  • The Use Button Frame property only applies to answers that have an image. Text only answers will always have a frame regardless of this setting.
  • To ensure that there is no frame around unselected answer options, the Button Tint property must be blank.
  • The color of selected answer options is not adjustable.

When Use Button Frame is selected, answer options look like this.

When Use Button Frame is clear, answer options look like this.

Button tint

Note: This question property is not supported for mobile surveys. Any changes you make to this question property are not rendered for mobile participants.

This property determines the color of the buttons.

To set the button color, click the Button Tint field, and then select a color from the color picker.

Alternatively, enter a hexadecimal color value in the Button Tint field. To find hexadecimal color values, do an Internet search for "hexadecimal color codes."

Example

The default button tint looks like this:

Using a button tint value of 49BE57, the button looks like this:

Sensitive Data

This property will automatically purge other/specify response data after the participant becomes purged and a set number of days passes. After the data is purged, you cannot access it again.

Note: Only Admins can change this property.

Sensitive Data is available on request. For more information, see Purging sensitive data.

Custom Layout

Note: These question properties are not supported for mobile surveys. Any changes you make to these question properties are not rendered for mobile participants.

You can customize the following aspects of a Button question.

Answer direction

Whether the answers are arranged horizontally or vertically.

Number of columns that the answers are arranged into

The image to the right shows the same question displayed with different numbers of columns.

Font size of text on the buttons

Notice that the button size adjusts to accommodate larger or smaller font.