I was hoping to be able to add the question code as a new class to each of the questions in a survey, so that I can format the questions individually without using the question ID (which requires me to update template.css each time I make a new version of the survey). This script allows me to add a new class, but needs to be modified for each question:

As you see, the placeholder {QID} may be used for question ID. However, I have not been able to find a placeholder that works for question code. None of the question-related placeholders listed in the EM Roadmap provide the information I need. Many of them, such as {QUESTION_CODE}, seem not to be working in this context.

I'd appreciate your help in finding a placeholder I can use. Alternatively, any other way of implementing question-specific styling that is not broken upon copy/update would work for me

Thanks,

Hi,

{QUESTION_CODE} is added only if you set "Show question number and/or code: " to both or Question Code Only in survey settings.

After you can use it in your template
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Survey_setting...ation_.26_navigation

class="{QUESTION_CODE} {MANDATORY_CLASS}....

If you enable "Show question number and/or code", you can use the {QUESTION_CODE} placeholder. So, you can do something like this in question.pstpl, which will add a class like "question-code-Potatoes".

Thanks, DenisChenu, I was hoping there would be a simple solution to this. After enabling "Show question code", the following script works (as inserted into question source):

I don't understand using JavaScript here - that will require inserting in all questions, all languages. Modifying question.pstpl will automatically handle that.

And thank you, tpartner, your solution is even slicker!

Simply adding {QUESTION_CODE} to the first line in question.pstpl adds the question code as a new class for each of the questions in the survey. My first line now looks like this (note that I added a space to separate the question code class from previous classes): Now I won't have to add scripts to each of the questions, I'll simply call my questions directly in template.css. Smooth!

tpartner wrote: I don't understand using JavaScript here - that will require inserting in all questions, all languages. Modifying question.pstpl will automatically handle that.

Sorry, tpartner, I just wasn't quick enough to respond. Both of the solutions are potentially useful, but I would prefer yours in my case. Especially since I do handle a lot of different languages in this particular survey!

If you only need to edit a few questions, DenisChenu's solution works well, and you don't have to edit question.pstpl (I suppose that might matter in some cases, due to permissions)

class="{QUESTION_CODE} {MANDATORY_CLASS}....

Think it's better to use question.pstpl too :whistle: but i leave less advice than Tony