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I would like to ask a question that allows the respondent to select text from a block of text by highlighting it, and potentially labeling the highlighted text as different labels. The highlighted text could be any length, so simpler options such as splitting the paragraph into sentences and asking for sentence level labels wouldn't work.
- Is this possible with expression script?
- If not, is it feasible to develop (or rather have developed) a plug in or addin that could do this?
[Edit - I found a related but unaswered question after posting:
Interactive text-based question - LimeSurvey forums
. This brought me to
GitHub - mir3z/texthighlighter: -- NO LONGER MAINTAINED -- TextHighlighter allows you to highlight text on web pages
and
javascript - Get the Highlighted/Selected text - Stack Overflow
, but similar to that poster, I'm not sure where to get started with actually implementing to be a question.]
E.g. a question might look like:
Input
Question 1 - highlight all text yellow for label1 and green for label2:
This is a paragraph.
This is some text in a div element.
Completed response
Question 1 - highlight all text yellow for label1 and green for label2:
This is a paragraph.
This is some text in a div element.
Example output
[Question 1][label1] "this is"
[Question 1][label2] "paragraph"
[Question 1][label1] "this is"
[Question 1][label2] "some text in a div element"
A bare-boned implementation would be something like this example
styles - How to highlight selected text using css? - Stack Overflow
where the question saves the selected text each time it gets highlighted while the css displays all previously selected text as being highlighted. I could then have a subsequent question ask for labels. However, I don't know where I'd get started with trying to implement this type question.
Another idea would be to embed doccano (pictured below) or some other external tool that allows for this...but I'm not sure this is possible either and I imagine this would be harder (e.g. require developing an add-in)
