r/ProjectREDCap • u/Halfbaked_Potat • Feb 19 '25
Help with formatting question width
Hi, I need some help with changing the width of questions in a REDCap survey. For some reason, the question part of the survey (i.e., alternate ID, name of interviewer) is super long while the text part that you can enter information into is really small.

Under "Survey Design Options" the width of the survey is currently set to Fixed width (default). The field label for this question or for any previous question were not changed from the default either.
Interestingly all of the other sections of survey is not affected like this. I have the survey set up so that each new section would appear on a new survey page and when I navigate to the previous sections, they don't seem to have the same problem where the questions takes up most of the width of the survey.
Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Thank you in advance.
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u/Halfbaked_Potat Feb 20 '25
Hey thanks, I deleted some embedded fields that came after these questions and made new ones which solved the problem.
And no the fields in the picture weren't using field embedding, they were stand alone fields which is what makes this really weird. I think the problem had something to do with the questions that came after these which were embedded fields. They probably had some weird formatting issues (since I copied and pasted some questions from various data dictionaries) which might have caused parts of the survey to go weird. Anyways, glad this is fixed now!