Qualtrics: Javascript To Prevent Saving Entry From Text Box

I have one Text Box (also called 'Text Entry') in my qualtrics survey in which I want participants to write something but I do not want to have the result saved in my data. I do no

Solution 1:

I don't think JavaScript works well in this case as it can't be guaranteed to run before the page has sent the data.

The best way is to make a dummy HTML "question" which has the appearance of a form but does not save any information.

I tried this out in a test survey by adding a question of type "Descriptive Text", and then in "HTML View" for that question, adding:

<p>This is not a real question, there is just a HTML textarea. </p><formid="mydummyform"><inputname="nothing"type="textarea" /></form>

I found that this sometimes showed the HTML source instead of the form in the survey editor; if it does this, just go to "HTML View" and then "Normal View" and it should resolve correctly. This problem was only in the editor -- it always showed correctly in a preview of the survey.