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Audio file autoplay and hidden questions

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10:18
June 19, 2009


sophie

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I am designing a survey for children where I need to present questions one at a time, with an audio file of the question. There are a lot of questions, so I'm trying to find a way to format it so that they don't have to spend ages clicking around. Show/hide logic is obviously a good option, but that creates a problem with the audio - if I have more than one file on the page they all play immediately, even though the question the file is embedded in is hidden.

Is there any way to set the audio file to play when the hidden question is shown? The alternative is to get the respondents to click play to listen to the file, but this ends up cancelling out the benefit of hiding the questions in the first place.

Thanks!

1:06
June 20, 2009


jonathan

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posts 1129

Hey, Sophie

The Show/Hide triggers use CSS to hide elements until they need to be shown, but those elements are still written to the page so that they CAN be shown when triggered. Since your player is embedded even when it is hidden, there isn't any built-in way to tell it to play only once it has been changed to visible through the CSS.

You CAN write your own Javascript that does this but this would be very customized and advanced.

I know you mentioned you didn't want to do this, but I think your ebst options would be to make a clickable “Play” button, or to split each question+audio file combination onto separate pages.

Jonathan Turk, SurveyGizmo Account Manager
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