Hi there,

if there any way to include a dynamic Textbox in limesurvey? The goal is that participants answer a question in a short Textbox. In case they need more characters than actually thought the Textbox should increase the size.

I'm aware of that multiple Textboxes exist, yet, I need the dynamic one because of academic purposes.

Thank you in advance.

Regards

Hi,
I do not knpw exactly what you mean by "dynamic textbox"

The database representation of a "short text" type is "text". This is: max. 65,535 charcters.
The HTML representation is "input". This is: one line of text.

So your respondnets can type a lot of text; but only in one line.

If you want a representation of more than one line you have to use: "long free text" or "huge free text", which have a handle in the lower right corner to resize them.
The database representation of these type also is "text". This is: max. 65,535 charcters.
So you do not have an advantage in max. characters in the database.
A few days ago there was a thread about this.

Of course, if you use "long" or "huge" free text you have to use a bit of css to have a look and feel like the multiple short text question-

Best regards
Joffm

Hi,

thank you for your quick reply.

I'm aware of the short, long and huge free text. Also that both can include a maximum of 65,535 characters. However, what I would like to have is the following:

A short text inbox: Individuals start typing and as soon as they hit the end of the line, the textbox resizes such that they can always see the entire text they are typing. In other words: The textbox should increase in size every time the participant would enter a new line.

I do not need more characters. I guess that the maximum amount of characters will be something about 5000 - 10000. So the maximum will never be reached. I just want that the participants can also see the entire text even when only using a small textbox.

I hope I made my needs more understandable?

Thank you!

To be truly dynamic, you will need to use a little JavaScript and CSS. See here for inspiration - codepen.io/vsync/pen/frudD

Thank you! That's exactly what I need. Is there any guidance on how to implement something like that into Limesurvey?

1) Assign a CSS class "with-auto-expand" to a long-text type question.

1) Add this to your custom.js file:
1) Add this to your custom.css file:
Here is a sample survey with that JS and CSS in the source of the first question.

This is awesome! Thank you so much. Works like a charm!