Stop! Don't do it Poppy! Qualtrics advises against including a "Don't Know" option and has a great article as reference.



https://qualtrics.com/blog/why-including-dont-know-responses-is-hurting-your-survey-data/

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@JulieT Thanks, Julie! That is great advice, however, my supervisor is pretty adamant that they still want to add a "Don't Know" option. Does anyone know how to do this?

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The best way to set this up is to create a multiple choice question with 2 answers, the first will include a text entry, and the second will be Don't know.



Then you can add the following JavaScript to hide the first label, while keeping its text entry box:



Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function () {

function hideLabel(element) {

if (element.select('input')[0] != null || element.select('textarea')[0] != null) {

element.select('label').each(function (a, b) {

a.hide();

});

} else {

console.log(element);

}

}

var hideLabelsFlag = false



function hideLabels() { //QH.hideLabels() - Hides the label for any answer option where a text input has been added.

var elements = $$('.LabelWrapper');

elements.each(function (name, index) {

hideLabel(name);

});

hideLabelsFlag = true;

}

hideLabels();

});

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@Poppy, this solution isn't pretty, but it's functional. Create a 2-option Multiple Choice question and have one of them allow text entry.



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I'm not sure how much space a text entry field will allow, but it might work??

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