Default styles for question types

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You can set different default styles for different types of questions. These correspond to the settings you can make for single questions using Question.Style, so typical examples would be setting the number of rows or columns to be used for categorical response lists, or the background color for numeric text input boxes.

To set default styles based on question types, type:

IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.type].property = value

type

One of the following question types:

Question type	Description
qsBlock	Question blocks
qsBoolean	Boolean questions
qsCategorical	Categorical questions
qsCompound	Compound questions
qsDate	Date questions
qsDouble	Double (real) questions
qsInfo	Information items
qsLong	Long (integer) questions
qsLoopCategorical	Categorical loops
qsLoopNumeric	Numeric loops
qsOther	Automatic Other Specify questions
qsPage	Multiple questions on one page
qsText	Text questions

property

The name of the property you want to specify.

value

The value of the property.

Example: Default styles for question types

For example:

With IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.qsCategorical]
.Style.BgColor = "#C0C0FF"
.Style.Color = "blue"
.Style.Columns = 2
End With
With IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.qsLong]
.Style.BgColor = "#FFFF80"
.Style.Font.Effects = FontEffects.feItalic + FontEffects.feBold
.Style.Color = "green"
End With

produces the following effects for categorical and integer questions:

You can achieve even more control by combining question type styles with text and category styles:

With IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.qsCategorical]
.Style.Columns = 2
.Categories[CategoryStyleTypes.csSingle].Label.Color = "red"
.Categories[CategoryStyleTypes.csExclusive].Label.Color = "#FF00FF"
End With
IOM.DefaultStyles.Questions[QuestionStyleTypes.qsLong]_
.Labels[LabelStyleTypes.lsQuestion].Color = "blue"

displays all categorical questions in two columns, with single choice responses in red and exclusive responses in magenta. Question texts for integer questions are displayed in blue.

Default styles for question types, texts, and categories

Notice that the exclusive style does not apply to the Don't know response in the integer response list because the magenta text was defined only for categorical questions.