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Hello,

I have a challenging question (perhaps). 

I was wondering if it was possible to add an extra column to an array style question?

Below I have attached an example of what I am thinking about. Having the shaded items repeated or floating, I'll test them both out. With the added column on the very left hand side.  

Thank you. 

 

Hello,

This is where my thought process has come from. I have attached an image below and what I have for the code. I havent addedd the corresponding multiple short text code or the question right after to show what I intend to do.

Thank you,

Boshra

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
     $(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){
         // Identify the questions
    var qArrayID = {QID};
    var qArray = $('#question'+qArrayID);
    var qMultiText = qArray.nextAll('.multiple-short-txt:eq(0)');
 
              // Hide the multi-short-text question
    $(qMultiText).hide();
 
    var tableWidth = $('table.questions-list:eq(0)', qArray).width();
    var answerWidth = $('col.ls-col-odd:eq(0)', qArray).width();
    var answerWidthPercent = (answerWidth/tableWidth)*100;
    var answersLength = $('col.ls-col-odd, col.ls-col-even', qArray).length;
    var answerWidthPercent2 = (answerWidthPercent*answersLength)/(answersLength+1)
    $('table.questions-list col', qArray).removeAttr('width');
    $('table.questions-list col:not(.col-answers)', qArray).css('width', 'auto');
      $('table.questions-list thead tr', qArray).append( '<th class="answer-text inserted-column-label" /></th>');
      $('table.questions-list thead tr th.answer-text.inserted-column-label', qArray).css('width','30%');
    $('tr.answers-list', qArray).each(function(i) {
      $(this).append('<td class="answer-item text-item">\
      </td>\
      ');
    });
    // Load the column label for the text inputs
    $('.inserted-column-label:eq(0)', qArray).text($('.ls-label-question', qMultiText).text());
    $('.text-item', qArray).append('<label class="ls-label-xs-visibility">'+$('.ls-label-question', qMultiText).text()+'</label>');
    // Loop through the multi-short-text sub-questions
    $('li.answer-item', qMultiText).each(function(i) {
      // Move the text inputs into the array
      $('input[type="text"]', this).appendTo($('tr.answers-list:eq('+i+') .text-item', qArray));
    });
  });
</script><script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">    
    $(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){
 
        // Identify this question
        var thisQuestion = $('#question{QID}');
 
        // Insert header text
        var insertedText = "wordswordswordswords";
        $('table.subquestion-list thead tr:last td:first', thisQuestion).addClass('inserted-header').append(insertedText);
    });
</script>
<style type="text/css">td.inserted-header {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: left;
    vertical-align: middle !important;
    font-style: italic;
}
</style>
 

I am not able to give a full example now but you can start by changing all instances of ".append" to ".prepend".

Then, looking at the example above, you may want to add some rowspan attributes to the inserted cells.

- www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_rowspan.asp