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When creating Mechanical Turk HITs, it’s necessary to use HTML syntax. This is a list of 20 examples of HTML syntax (tags and attributes) for accomplishing common tasks in Mechanical Turk HITs. These 20 examples don’t cover the entirety of HTML, but they cover all the HTML that is typically needed to setup a Mechanical Turk HIT. A single-page version suitable for printing can be downloaded here.
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Here is some handy CSS for doing highlights, info boxes, and so on within Qualtric questions. I use them in the HTML edit box with a variety of Qualtrics question-types to create “sign-posts” that guide respondents through questionnaires.
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Qualtrics allows in-line Cascading Style Sheets (CCS) in their questions. It’s useful for tweaking the way questions are visually formatted. These are a few CSS formats I keep handy. Continue reading “CSS in Qualtrics questions”
To my eye, the “page width” used by Qualtrics with most of their themes is too narrow. Even on a small-screen laptop, it leaves a lot of side margin. The issue isn’t merely aesthetic; a wider screen gives me a little more room for wider labels above closed-ended response options.
I use the following CSS code to give a little more width to the space Qualtrics uses for survey questions. This code is added in Qualtrics “Look & Feel,” under “Style.”
This is some handy CSS & HTML for creating a five-point response scale in Qualtrics. In terms of guiding respondents, I believe this visual representation of the response scale achieves clarity while emphasizing the important information:
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