separator

Surveys & forms

separator is a form/survey column that appends a horizontal dashed divider line after a form question, to visually group sections of questions that share a page. Any non-empty value adds the divider right after the question and its optional per-row panel.

Outside type=form trials the column has no effect.

Syntax

Put 1 in the cell of the question you want a divider after, and leave the other cells empty. The cell’s actual content is never used; any non-empty value adds the divider.

Options

Value	Effect
empty cell (or missing column)	no separator
any other string, including 0, false, or an HTML snippet	dashed divider added after the question; the value itself is discarded

There is no way to customize the divider through this column; its look is fixed.

Defaults & missing values

With the column missing or the cell left blank, no separator is shown. Any non-empty value enables it.

Works with

• Page layout: the divider is its own full-width element added after the question, so it spans the page width regardless of the question type.
• pageBreak: separators only matter within a page; if the row also ends the page there is nothing after the divider on screen.
• responseRows: with response rows, the divider is added after the whole panel/matrix, not between rows.
• Results output: the raw value is echoed into the results file like every recognized column.

Examples

type	head	responseType	responseOptions	separator	pageBreak
form	Age	box
form	Gender	radio	Male;Female;Other	1
form	How did you sleep last night?	likert	1;2;3;4;5		1

A dashed line renders after the Gender question, splitting the demographics block from the sleep question on the same page.

Tips & gotchas

Caution

separator=0 ADDS a separator, because any non-empty value counts. The only way to disable it is leaving the cell empty.

• An HTML string in the cell does not yield a custom separator; the value is never read and the divider’s look is fixed.
• Questions without a separator get no extra spacing between them.