Basic Text Formatting in REDCap

Styles of Fonts

You can style your fonts in three basic ways:

Bold face font, Italics font, and bold&italics font together. 

Bold Face

To make a format bold you will have to use this HTML code:

<strong>This text is bold.</strong>

When you use the HTML code, <strong>Insert text here.</strong> , this will be produced. 

Italics Font 

To make a format italics you will use this HTML code:

<em>Do this and your text will be in italics style.</em>

When you use the HTML Code, <em>Insert text here.</em>, this will be produced.

Bold and Italics 

To make a format italics and bold, you will use the HTML code:

<strong><em>To get your text italics and bold, do this.</em></strong>

When you use the HTML Code, <strong><em>Insert text here.</em></strong>, this will be produced. 

Font Colors and Sizes 

Another couple of different simple formatting options you can do in REDCap surveys or forms is having different font colors and font sizes.

Getting the font color and font size is simple.

All you have to do is use/copy these HTML Codes: 

Font Colors 

To make a words in REDCap have font colors, use this HTML code:

<font color="red">This color will be red.</font>
<font color="purple">This color will be purple.</font>
<font color="green">This color will be green.</font>
<font color="blue">This color will be blue.</font>

When you use the HTML code <font color="any color">Insert text here.</font>, you can get any color you want with the font. 

Font Sizes

For different font sizes, use this HTML code: 

<div style="font-size: 10pt">This is how you change the size of the font.</div>
<div style="font-size: 14pt">This is how you change the size of the font.</div>
<div style="font-size: 20pt">This is how you change the size of the font.</div>
<div style="font-size: 22pt">This is how you change the size of the font.</div> 

When you use the HTML code <font size="any number">Insert text here.</font>, you can get any