topic Re: How to set a background color on a label? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

How to set a background color on a label?

ScottMoore__Olympia_ — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:57:12 GMT

I have a survey that looks something like this on paper:

I am trying to emulate it in Survey123, but the one with the yellow background color doesn't work because the font tag doesn't support it. Is there a way to do this using CSS? I also tried the <mark> tag and it doesn't seem to work.

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

JamesTedrick — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 04:08:03 GMT

Hi Scott,

We currently don't support setting the background color on a label. We've logged it as a potential enhancement for Survey123. Let me know if you have more questions!

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

ScottMoore__Olympia_ — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:53:41 GMT

Thanks for the heads up, James. Also, I wanted to point out that the font information is being rendered as text in the Survey123 web app. See the photo:

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

JamesTedrick — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 22:41:40 GMT

Thanks Scott, I've logged this as an issue.

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

ZhifangWang — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:19:49 GMT

Hi Scott,

Before we have enhancement to display the html tags directly in individual response, would you mind to try out our new report feature? https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/07/26/introducing-custom-form-report-templates-in-survey123-for-arcgis

I think the report feature can fulfill your need too.

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

ScottMoore__Olympia_ — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:34:37 GMT

Survey123 already supports setting the font tag in the app for the choices. The web app needs to apply the tag as well, not just display the html as text. The report templates won't help here.

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

JackOrenstein — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:29:25 GMT

Hi James,

Regarding the Background color on a Label - is this enhancement almost completed? seems like was logged in about 9 months ago? it is really an important one, in order to help the Users experience.

Thanks,

Jack

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

Lake_Worth_BeachAdmin — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:58:57 GMT

it does the same when exporting to PDF .logged this back in 9.8.17 as BUG-000107912

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

JamesTedrick — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:59:45 GMT

Hi Jack,

HTML styling for labels will be available in the next release of the web form.

Re: How to set a background color on a label?

JackOrenstein — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:00:27 GMT

Thank you so much James; would be very helpful for users. Appreciate it.

Jack

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