How-to

Make your survey wider

A survey page no longer has to be 720 pixels wide. Choose from six widths up to full screen, or set your own in pixels or as a percentage.

By Darryl Waterhouse · · 2 min read

Until now a survey page was always 720 pixels wide. That reads well, but on a large screen it leaves two-thirds of the window empty, and a long row of choices or a wide banner gets squeezed. Surveys 1.16.0 lets you choose the width.

Choose a width

Open Surveys, edit a survey and open Look & feel. Under Page width, pick one of:

  • Narrow, 600 pixels, for a short, focused form
  • Standard, 720 pixels, the width surveys have always had
  • Medium, 900 pixels
  • Wide, 1100 pixels
  • Extra wide, 1400 pixels
  • Full width, the whole window less a small margin

If none of those fit, choose Custom… and type your own: a number of pixels from 320 to 3000, or a percentage of the window from 30 to 100. A hint under the box tells you the width you will actually get.

When to go wider

A wider page helps when your survey has:

  • rating scales or choices laid out side by side,
  • a picture header or banner you want to show large, or
  • a backdrop you would rather people saw less of.

Keep longer text questions on Standard or Medium. Lines of text that run across a wide screen are harder to read.

Good to know

  • Standard is still the default, so the surveys you already have look exactly as before until you change them.
  • If you use the Focus style, its narrower column is replaced by the width you choose.
  • On a phone a survey always fills the screen, whatever you choose.
  • The width applies to the survey's own page. A survey embedded on one of your pages with the [survey] shortcode takes the width of the place you put it.

Where to find it

Open Surveys, edit a survey and look under Look & feel > Page width. The user manual has the full guide, and Surveys that look like yours covers the rest of Look & feel.

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