Configure how your survey looks and behaves for respondents — colors, logo, progress bar, security, scheduling, and completion options.
Opening survey settings#
In the survey builder, open the Settings tab. Settings are grouped to match how you think about the respondent experience.
Branding & look and feel#
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Theme color | Primary button and highlight color |
| Background color | Full-page background |
| Card background | Question card background |
| Logo | Image shown at the top of the survey |
| Border radius | Corner roundness (sharp to rounded) |
| Question text (px) | Size of question text on the default question types. Stored as --questionFontSize. |
| Choices (px) | Size of answer, row and choice labels. Stored as --choiceFontSize. |
| Matrix columns (px) | Size of matrix column headers. Stored as --columnFontSize. Leave it empty and columns follow the Choices size; clear it at any time to go back to following. |
| Custom CSS | Advanced styling injected into the respondent view |
Font sizes#
New surveys start at 17px for question text and for row / column / choice labels. Surveys created before this baseline keep the sizes they already had — raising them is a deliberate change you make here, never something that happens on its own.
These are the defaults. Text you size directly in the rich text editor keeps that size and is not affected by changing the values above. To hand a piece of text back to the survey default, open the font-size dropdown in the editor toolbar and choose Default, or use Reset font sizes in a question's ⋮ menu to do it for every field on that question at once.
Matrix and Ranking questions can also override the row and column sizes for a single question, under Properties › Settings › Row & column text size, including an optional desktop adjustment that applies at 640px and above.
Tip: New surveys start with a polished default theme similar to common research platforms. You can override any property or add custom CSS for full control.
Instruction bullets: list items with the
bulletclass show a small square marker in your primary color, lined up with the first line of the item's text. Change the color with--primaryColor. To reposition or resize the marker, targetli.bullet::beforein Custom CSS and mark the declarations!important.
Organization-level styling defaults may apply to new surveys in your workspace. Per-survey overrides take precedence.
Experience settings#
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Show progress bar | Off | Visual progress during the survey |
| Show question numbers | Off | Display Q1, Q2, … labels |
| Show asterisk on mandatory questions | On | Mark required questions with a red * in the respondent view. Turning it off only hides the marker — required questions still have to be answered, and the builder still shows you which questions are required |
| One question per page | Off | Show a single question at a time |
| Hide back button | Off | Remove the Back button |
| Custom labels | System | Override Next, Back, Submit, Required text (per locale) |
Response controls#
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Allow partial responses | Save incomplete sessions |
| Capture screen-out responses | Keep the answer data of screened-out respondents. The screen-out itself is always counted; turn this off and only the answers are discarded. Leave it on if you may later want to mark a terminated response complete, because a promoted screen-out with no answers reaches your export as an empty row |
| Allow multiple responses | Same person can take the survey more than once |
| Anonymous responses | No respondent identification required |
| Max responses | Close the survey after a response cap |
Completion & post-survey#
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Completion message | Thank-you text after submit |
| Redirect URL | Send respondents to an external URL |
| Email summary | Optional copy of responses emailed to the respondent |
Scheduling#
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Open at | Survey inaccessible before this date/time |
| Close at | Survey stops accepting responses |
| Timezone | Used for open/close scheduling |
Security#
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Password protection | Require a password before the survey loads |
| CAPTCHA | Bot verification at survey start |
| IP tracking | Store respondent IP in session metadata |
Warning: Changing security or scheduling on a live survey affects new sessions immediately after you publish.
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