Formatting issues

[bene]

How do I align the body of the survey to align center - the header aligns center but the body of survey always align left. The format is akward - can somebody help.

[ncushing]

First, let me apologize for the late reply. We had a problem with the forum for over a month that prevented thread notifications from being mailed to our support staff and we just found about it this week.

There isn't a built-in option to center the survey, though newer versions Checkbox allow you to create HTML templates to apply to pages of the survey. You could take advantage of this feature to create a custom template that centers the survey in the browser.

-N

[bene]

I could not figure out how you format your demo surveys with rounded corners, centered text etc. I just need to know on how to go about applying a template to the surveys.

[bene]

I think I got a handle of this -thanks anyway

[ncushing]

I'm glad to hear that you figured it out. The two most common techniques used are to use the style header/footer to wrap the survey page with centering text. Another technique is to use the item position options within the survey editor to center items. A third technique would be to create custom page layout templates to apply to the survey.

[garymgordon]

Hi.

I need help with this.

In previous versions of Checkbox, going back (I believe) to just v4.1, I had no problem creating the opening TABLE tags in the header and then closing the TABLE tags in the footer, and just setting the big wrapping table to center.

But in v4.2 or 4.3, the editor for creating and editing a STYLE .. is not letting set this to TEXT ONLY. It is opening it up in an HTML window that automatically closes all tags .. so I can't leave a table tag open in the header and close it in the footer.

I have tried numerous things but I can't seem to figure out how to edit the HEADER section in a Style .. in text mode so it will leave my code alone and stop closing the table tags, etc.

How can I do this? Am I missing something?

Gary Gordon

[pwiesner]

You can use page layout templates to center a survey. For a more detailed explanation of layout templates please refer to the "Page Layout Templates" and "Using Page layout Templates" sections of the manual. In the current version of our manual (http://checkbox.com/pdf/Checkbox_Manual_4_5.pdf) the information you are looking for begins on page 99.