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Hi Team Guru!



I struggle to believe, that Qualtrics cannot support horizontal 1-10 multiple choice questions with label options within mobile devices. Hopefully I have just not looked the right place ...



Basically I want to have as shown in the attached screenshot: !



My problem is, that Multiple Choice options gets vertical when using from mobile.

NPS has the EXACT layout I need, but it does not allow me to edit the options (I need 1-10 and 11th option is "Don't know".)

Matrix is not an option as it creates space and movies the option far right.



So the 1000 dollar question is, how can I get this multiple choice horizontally on both desktop and mobile just like the NPS? 😃



Do I need to do some coding? If so, any suggestion? This has to be a feature request by the way 😉



Big thanks in advance.
Hi @AbdulDezkam,

what about using a matrix, but hide the part with the statemen using CSS and not put your options into the matrix options, but above using HTML with our custom CSS?

Personally, I'd prefer to have the question horizontal on mobiles, but to put the labels above and below the text. I can provide you a script for this. However, this would likely require to have the last option in a separate question and you probably prefer the horizontal layout...
@Fleb Do you have example of a CSS which we can use to hide the choice?
Don't worry about it .. I have figured it out.

Hi gauravbhagat,
Could you share your solution?
Thanks!

Hi AbdulDezkam,

Have you solve the problem? I also encountered the problem.

Thanks a lot!

@wuyue I think the NPS question type works well to display 1-10 horizontally on mobile. You can use JS to adjust the values of the choices that get displayed to the respondent.

This won't change the actual values of the selections (0-10), so you could either:

Add Branching in the Survey Flow for each selection that will set the desired values in an Embedded Data field

Or

Update the value on page submit so that it is set to what was displayed to the respondent. Adding the below to the question’s JavaScript will do this and then change the styling of the new selected choice to match an unselected choice. It will also readjust the value back to what the respondent selected if the back button is used, but test with live link not a preview:

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()
{
	/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page loads*/

var selChoiceLoad = this.getSelectedChoices();
var selChoiceNumLoad = parseInt(selChoiceLoad) - 1;
this.setChoiceValue(selChoiceNumLoad, true);

});

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function()
{
	/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page is fully displayed*/
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-0-label").html("1");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-1-label").html("2");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-2-label").html("3");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-3-label").html("4");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-4-label").html("5");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-5-label").html("6");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-6-label").html("7");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-7-label").html("8");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-8-label").html("9");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-9-label").html("10");
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-10-label").html("Don't Know").css({"padding":"1px"});
});

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnUnload(function()
{
	/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page is unloaded*/

});


Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function(type)
{
	/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page is unloaded*/

if(type == "next") {	

var selChoice = this.getSelectedChoices();
var selChoiceNum = parseInt(selChoice) + 1;
this.setChoiceValue(selChoiceNum, true);
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+"-"+selChoiceNum+"-label").css({
	"background": "#f1f1f1",
    "border": "none",
    "color": "#000000"
});

}

});

 

I have a JS function, scaledMatrix that does this. It has many formatting options and is very flexible.

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