How to use the text (multiple lines) block
Learn everything you need to know to use the text (multiple lines) block in your forms.
When to use
Use the text (multiple lines) block to let your respondents enter a text answer that can contain line breaks. Usually used for long text answers, like explanations.

How to use
Add a new block to your form and then select the question type Text (multiple lines)
. You can now customize this block to your needs with the following features.
Basic features
Each question block has basic features to present the block the way you need, for example Name
, Description
and Help text
. And most of the question blocks have common options, like the Required
and Exportability
options.
More information about these basic features can be found in the help article about our form builder.
Additional features
On top of those basic features, the text (multiple lines) block has the following advanced options:
-
Transform
By enabling the
Transform
feature, you can determine how the answered text should be transformed. For example you can capitalize certain parts of the answer, or convert all characters to lowercase/uppercase. -
Prefill
By enabling the
Prefill
feature, you can set a fixed initial value of the text block (more information about prefilling).

Logic
Logic is important to make your forms smart and conversational. The text (multiple lines) block can work with the following branch conditions to help you with that:
Block conditions
- Text matches
your filter
; - Text does not match
your filter
; - Text contains
your filter
; - Text does not contain
your filter
; - Text starts with
your filter
; - Text ends with
your filter
; - Text is empty;
- Text is not empty.
Filters
When we mention your filter
above, there are some different filters that you can use to make the right comparison:
- Text - Compare with a fixed text that you enter;
- Value - Compare with another block value entered in the form by a respondent (more info).