Adding Blank Lines in Question Prompts

In some instances, you may need to ask the user in the interview a question with a blank line. For example, Fill in the blank: _______ or The client resides in ________ county.

Knackly uses markdown syntax to achieve formatting within the interview. You can learn more about formatting your interviews in the Formatting Your Interviews With Headers, Colors, Videos, and Images lesson.

Markdown defaults a regular underscore to one character, meaning if you were to type out five underscores ( _______ ), in the interview, it would appear only as a single underscore:

_

To avoid this, we surround the underscores with the backtick character. This is located on the same key as the tilde, next to the 1 on the keyboard.

With the backtick, the markdown within the question prompt looks like:

Fill in the blank `________`

We can update the question prompt for a variable using the backtick. To learn more about question prompts, review Creating and Editing Question Prompts.

In the interview, the blank will now appear as appropriate: