Form Design and Functionality Question

By: Dale Berkebile | Asked: 11/11/2022
ForumsCategory: How-toForm Design and Functionality Question
Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile asked 2 years ago
So I have a client that I am building an online course for. I originally build a quiz in the LMS I am using, but it doesn't offer some of the things I wanted and I was told I might be able to use a form to create what I want.

So this is a Continuing Education evaluation that asks about 30 questions. They are scaled questions like strongly agree to strongly disagree type questions on a scale of 1-5. There are other ones that are similar but changes out the answer ranking labels depending on the question. Other questions are yes/no questions and there may be a few more.

Anyhow, I'd like what seems to be fairly normal form questions.


I guess I was wondering how to best style the form because it looks pretty weak from a design perspective. The questions on the page are not numbered, there weren't any divider lines or alternating background colors or anything to style and organize things.

I dropped the sample form in Elementor to try to style it better and it still looks not-so-good in elementor besides the surrounding areas where I could design things.

I am an old Formidable Forms guy grandfathered in the Business Pro tool from 2014 or so but haven't kept up with all the updates or even used the tool much as I haven't been doing much-advanced formwork over the last 5 years or so.

I guess I am wondering how to best design a really decent and professional-looking form for  the company collecting reviews for CE credits and reporting. Am I missing something on the styling and design of the forms? I guess I want page builder type styling like Elementor, but with the backend form usability and data collection and reporting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
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Bobby Clapp answered 2 years ago
Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile replied 2 years ago

I am not yet, but that looks much better than what I was doing. Thank you. This might get me able to design a few of the questions. Will I be able to have several of the questions in a single form like this, but then other ones styled similarly, but changing the answer label (not the agree/disagree labels but something else). Would that be possible to change other questions?

Thank you for this,
This is definitely getting me closer.

Bobby Clapp replied 2 years ago

This is field specific. You apply CSS style and HTML code. You can still have whatever other fields and styles that belong to them.

Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile answered 2 years ago
So this helped me structure the header design started and add lines between questions. That part is looking great! Thank you!   I am a little rusty on both CSS and Formidable so I guess I am curious how I get questions to stay in 25% on the left side so the radio buttons can line up under the headers. I assume this is easy and I would just need to create a class for the questions somehow and set a width of 25% and then add the div calling that class in the HTML.   I added some screenshots marked up with my questions.  If anyone can help me fix some of these issues or point me in the right direction I'd truly appreciate it.   I do not own the latest subscription and I am not sure if there are templates built that might make this easier to start out and adjust. I am not sure I am asking the right questions, but hope this makes sense.

I created 3 sets of questions to try to keep my thoughts organized and communicate it best.

Thank you for any help!
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Bobby Clapp replied 2 years ago

And you've followed steps 1-4 in the link above (https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/customize-html/#kb-add-labels-to-a-grid) exactly as stated?

Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile answered 2 years ago
If you are stating the 4 steps mentioned in the - Add Labels To A Grid # - section. Then, yes, I think I followed the instructions to a T. with minor adjustments of labels. Maybe I am missing something. I'll share a screenshot of what I followed and how I did it to see if I somehow missed a step or am doing something incorrectly. Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated.   Thank you for your help. I appreciate it.
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Bobby Clapp replied 2 years ago

Are you able to share a public link so we can inspect the page?

Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile answered 2 years ago
I assume the questions need some more CSS to align the radio buttons under the label, but not sure what I will need to add and where to find this recommendation on the site or youtube.
Dale BerkebileDale Berkebile answered 2 years ago
It looks like the class for the overall radio buttons area is… frm_opt_container

Would something like this work? - .frm_opt_container [padding-left:30px;]

Then maybe…

frm_scale

for adding space between the radio buttons. Maybe something like…

.frm_scale {     margin-right: 100px;     text-align: center;     float: left; }

Any idea if this would work or how to make it work?  

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