Text Block Widget (Studio)

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About Text Block Widgets

You can add text to your dashboard using text block widgets. Text blocks can be useful for introductions, explanations of analyses, titles, and more.

Text Editing Options

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Qtip: Create smaller line breaks by pressing Shift + Enter instead of Enter.
Text effects: Bold, italicize, underline, or strike out your text.
Paragraph style: Use this dropdown to format selected text.
  • Heading 2-6: Headers that decrease in size, with 2 being the biggest, and 6 being the smallest.
    Qtip: Heading 1 is reserved for the dashboard title, so dashboard widgets begin with Heading 2 or lower.
  • Preformatted Text: Insert code snippets or similar content.
    Gray code block
    Gray code block
  • Paragraph: Make a regular paragraph.
Font: Choose a font face, like Helvetica or Arial.
Size: Choose a font size. Instead of exact pixels, you can choose from general presets.
Color: Change the font color of selected text. You can choose from a color wheel, hex codes, RGB, or preset palettes.
Highlight: Highlight your text. You can choose from a color wheel, hex codes, RGB, or preset palettes.
Clear Formatting: Remove all styling from selected text.
Embed image: Add an image to your text block. You can paste a URL of an image from the web or upload an image from your computer.
Qtip: The limits of images in the text block are similar to those for the image widget.
Unordered list: Created a bulleted list.
Ordered list: Created a numbered list.
Increase indent: Create another list indented under your list.
Decrease indent: If you’ve created an indented list, you can decrease its indent.
Quote/unquote selection of a paragraph: Add a quote block to the paragraph. This appears as an indented paragraph with a line to its left.
Sentence starts with a vertical line to indicate it is a quote
Sentence starts with a vertical line to indicate it is a quote
Paragraph alignment: Choose whether you want your paragraph to be left, right, or center-aligned, or if it should be justified.
Toggle HTML / Rich Text: Switch between the HTML source view and rich text. The HTML source view supports basic HTML formatting.
HTML tab of a text block widget
HTML tab of a text block widget
Qtip: In HTML mode, each heading element is separated with a line break for improved readability.
Qtip: Qualtrics Support does not offer assistance or consultation on custom coding. If you’d like to know more about our custom coding services, please contact your Discover account team. If you don’t have your representative’s contact information, you can contact the Discover Support Team instead.
Insert/edit link: Add or edit a hyperlink. You will add both the link URL and title.
New window where you add a link URL and link title
New window where you add a link URL and link title
Text rotation: Rotate text.
  • None: Text will be written left to right, as normal.
  • Rotate Down: Text will be written vertically, starting at the top, and ending at the bottom.
    the word welcome written vertically, starting at the top, and ending at the bottom.
    the word welcome written vertically, starting at the top, and ending at the bottom.
  • Rotate Up: Text will be written vertically, starting at the bottom, and ending at the top.
    the word welcome, written vertically, starting at the bottom, and ending at the top.
    the word welcome, written vertically, starting at the bottom, and ending at the top.
Text alignment: Decide where the text should be aligned within the entire body of the widget. Choose between:
  • Align Top (default)
  • Align Middle
    the word welcome in the middle of the page
    the word welcome in the middle of the page
  • Align Bottom
    Welcome written at the very bottom of the text editor
    Welcome written at the very bottom of the text editor

Organization Hierarchy

For personalized dashboards, you can insert placeholders for an organization hierarchy’s enrichment parameters by selecting them from the Hierarchy Enrichments dropdown.

You can also type the name of a parameter inside curly brackets. For example, if you have an enrichment parameter called Target Sentiment, insert it like this:

{Target Sentiment}

Background Color

Background color settings
Background color settings
  • None: Make the background transparent. This means it will match the dashboard background color.
  • Default: Use the standard white widget background.
  • Custom: Enter a hex code of any color you want.

Border Position

Border position setting
Border position setting

Choose whether you want a border to appear along the top, bottom, or around all sides of a text block. Click a selection twice to remove it.

Example: Here is a text block with a top border.
A paragraph with a line along the top
A paragraph with a line along the top
Example: Here is a text block with a border all around.
A paragraph with a border around all sides
A paragraph with a border around all sides

Margins

margin buttons
margin buttons

Use margins to control the distance between the text block widget’s contents and its outer edges, which acts as padding.

Normal margins are larger than narrow margins.

FAQs

Can I add a table to my text block?

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