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Using the Descriptive Text Field
Using the Descriptive Text Field

How use the Descriptive Text Field in your forms!

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Written by Angela Lim
Updated over a week ago

The Descriptive Text field allows you to add formatted text, images, and links into your forms to help guide your users through filling them out. 

There are some examples of how this field is often used, although there are many more:

  • Explain the purpose and instructions for the form being filled out.

  • Provide a script for asking form questions, particularly for assessments, surveys, and screenings that require consistency.

  • Add pictures for visual interest in the form.

To add a Descriptive text field to your form, simply click the Descriptive text button under Available Fields section, or click and drag it into the desired location in your form.

Once it is added to your form, you can toggle open the settings and edit the field. The types of formatting you can add to the field include:

  1. HTML code

  2. Text formatting such as: Normal, Quote, Headers, Code

  3. Bolding, Italics, and Strikethroughs

  4. Numbered and Bulleted Lists

  5. Indents and Outdents

  6. Images

  7. Links

  8. Left, Center, and Right Horizontal Alignments

  9. Horizontal Rule bars

Filling out a Form

When filling out a form for a contact or group with descriptive text, it will appear as below. You do not need to enter in any data for this field - it will simply display in the area that you put it.

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