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This appearance presents the answers as a deck of playing cards, with the scale being represented by a series of areas. The respondent answers the question by dragging the cards into the appropriate areas.
Figure 1 - Dragging the question cards into the answer areas
The various styles for the cards and drop areas are set up in the Question Skins > Grid Question > Question Form Input properties pane. Additional card-sort-related selections also become available:
- Card Offset - sets an offset for the stack of "unused" cards. This shows the edges of unused cards lower in the pack so the respondent can see how many remain.
- Card Dropped Offset - sets an offset for the cards once they have been dropped onto the "answer" areas so the respondent can see how many he/she has dropped onto a particular answer.
- Card Layout - specifies where the card deck is located relative to the answer areas. For example, Top-Bottom places the deck at the top of the page and the answer areas at the bottom.
Note that the card-sort functionality look and feel that the respondent experiences will depend on the layout used, with the best experience being provided by responsive rendering layouts (go to Responsive Rendering for more information). For responsive rendering layouts the following applies:
- The color of the cards is controlled by the main (selected) color in the look and feel area.
- Larger screens can benefit from a choice of card layouts: Bottom-Top, Top-Bottom, Left-Right, Right-Left, smaller form-factor screens will always be Bottom-Top.
- Three drop zones are displayed per row (not configurable).
- A count of the total cards is available.
- A badge shows the count of items placed in each deck.
- Answer group and scale group labels are not displayed.