Display logic controls the visibility of questions, blocks, or list items based on conditions you define. Once a condition is applied, the element is hidden by default and only shown when the condition evaluates to true.
For example:
Q1 will only appear when the respondent's answer to the Age question is less than 18.
Conditions work the same way as skip logic, using the dropdown logic builder to define:
See the Skip logic article for a detailed walkthrough of the logic builder.
To add Display logic to a question or block:
The element will only appear to respondents when the condition evaluates to true. To add display logic to a list item, see Item display logic below.
Display logic can be a simpler alternative to skip logic in some cases:
That said, skip logic is more efficient when skipping respondents across multiple questions or pages. Reserve display logic for controlling visibility of individual questions or blocks, and use skip logic for navigation.
Page-level behavior
If a question with display logic is the only content on a page and its condition evaluates to false, the entire page is skipped for that respondent.
To reveal a follow-up question based on an earlier answer on the same page:
The second question stays hidden until the condition is met.
Display logic can also show or hide individual list items within a question based on responses from other questions. Note that item display logic can't respond to selections made within the same question — only to responses from elsewhere in the survey.
Open the options menu (
) on a list item and select Item display logic.
This opens the item display logic manager for that question, where items appear in the left panel and conditions are configured on the right.
When item display logic is active, the survey records which items were shown to each respondent. This is saved in your data export as [QuestionName]_ItemsDisplayedList, formatted as a comma-separated list of item numbers.
When item Display logic is applied to a question, the survey records which items were displayed to each respondent. This information is saved in the survey data download under a column labeled [QuestionName]_ItemsDisplayedList.
The data is formatted as a comma-separated list of item numbers corresponding to the items shown to the respondent.
