Lay out a section

You end up with a page laid out the way you want: the questions on the left or the right, narrow or taking a third or half of the screen, next to the map or next to a picture. The usual use is a welcome page with a photo of the place on one side and the introduction with a Start button on the other.

Before you start

• A Picture or Form section has no map, so it cannot hold map questions (points, lines, areas, spray). Move them to a Map section first.
• Layout is a display setting: on a published survey it changes in place, without unpublished changes.

Steps

1. Select the section in the left column. The section form opens with a Layout block.
2. Under Layout, choose what fills the screen beside the questions:
   • Map — the questions next to the map, as before.
   • Picture — the questions next to a picture.
   • Form — a classic full-width form with no map and nothing beside it.
3. For Picture, upload a picture under Picture. Leave it empty to show the survey’s cover image (Settings → Cover image); with neither, the space is a plain tinted area.
4. Under Panel side, choose Left or Right.
5. Under Panel width, choose Narrow (the usual width), A third of the screen or Half the screen.
6. Optionally, place the content inside a wide panel:
   • Content width — Full panel width (the usual) or Centred column: the title, text, questions and buttons keep a comfortable reading width in the middle of the panel.
   • Content vertical position — Top (the usual) or Middle: a short page sits in the middle of the panel instead of at its top. A long page still starts at the top and scrolls.
7. On a Map section, tick Keep the questions open while placing on the map if respondents should still see the questions while they place a point or draw. Without it the questions slide away as usual; with it, on a computer screen, they stay open and the crosshair, the point and the drawing buttons aim at the middle of the map beside them.
8. The section form saves itself. Check the result in the Live preview.

A welcome page like a magazine spread

1. Add a section at the top of the survey with no questions, or only a short choice question.
2. Set Layout to Picture, upload a photo of the place, set Panel side to Right and Panel width to Half the screen.
3. Write the introduction in the section’s Subheading and set Button label to Start.

The respondent sees the photo on the left half of the screen and the introduction with a Start button on the right. For a calmer page, also set Content width to Centred column and Content vertical position to Middle: the introduction then sits as a column in the middle of the right half.

On a phone

Side, width, the content position and keeping the questions open apply on computer screens. On a phone the questions always cover the map from the left, as before, and a Picture section shows the picture as a band across the top with the questions underneath it.