The editor - FormAI Documentation

The editor is where every form takes shape, whether FormAI drafted it or you started blank. You edit text directly on a canvas that looks like the finished form, and the form saves automatically. A “Saved” indicator with the date and time appears above the preview.

Select questions in the outline, browse question types, and open FormAI Agent.

Anatomy of the editor

Area	What it does
Top bar	Shows the form title, a type badge (SURVEY, QUIZ, or LIVE), and the workspace name. It holds the Edit, Share, and Result tabs, the Assistant button that opens FormAI Agent, and Publish.
Left panel	A Search question box and the form outline. A is the welcome screen, 1 to n are the questions, and B is the end screen. Hover a question to see its full text and its duplicate and delete icons.
Toolbar	+ adds a question, the brush opens the theme manager, the Desktop and Mobile toggle switches the preview size, the gear opens form settings, and the eye opens the preview.
Canvas	A browser-frame preview of the form. You edit titles, descriptions, and choices in place, and select Add choice to add an option.

Publish is disabled when there is nothing new to publish.

Blocks on the canvas

Each block on the canvas, such as a question or a screen, has three buttons at the top right:

Field image adds media to the block.
Field settings controls how the question behaves.
Field theme controls how that single question looks.

A form also has a welcome screen at the start and an end screen at the finish. The welcome screen shows the title, description, a start button, an estimated time, and a count of people who have completed the form. See Welcome and end screens.

Questions

Choose + in the toolbar to open the Add question menu. Hovering a type shows a live phone preview.

Add question menu with Text, Choices, Opinion, Other, and Contact and Payment groups and a phone preview of the hovered type — Question types are grouped by what they collect.

Survey and Quiz forms offer more than twenty types in these groups:

Text: Short text, Long text, Number, Website, Date
Choices: Yes/No, Policy, Options, Dropdown, Matrix, Picture Choice
Opinion: Scale, Rating, Ranking, Experience scale
Other: Question set, Multi question page, Welcome Screen, End Screen, Slide, Quote
Contact & Payment: Address, Phone Number, Email, Contact Information

Live forms have their own menu. See Live question types and Question types.

Four places to control a form

The editor separates behavior and appearance at two levels: one question, or the whole form.

Control	Scope	What it changes
Field settings	One question	Behavior such as Required, Multiple selection, Random order, or, in quizzes, Answer score. Options vary by question type.
Field theme	One question	Look of that question: preset, font, size, corner radius, alignment, and colors.
Theme manager	The whole form	The active theme, which you pick from your themes or the gallery, or build as a new theme.
Form settings	The whole form	Language, branding badge, progress bar, navigation, question numbers, and every respondent-facing label.

See Question settings, Question styling, Themes, and Form settings.

Field settings popover for an Options question with Required, Horizontal alignment, Multiple selection, Random order, and Show other — Field settings for an Options question.

Preview, then publish

The eye icon opens Preview — Current draft, which shows the desktop and mobile versions side by side. When the form is ready, select Publish, then use the Share tab to get a link. See Preview and Publish and share.

Next steps

Question types

Choose the right type for each question.

Edit with FormAI Agent

Change the form by chatting with the agent.

AI in FormAI

Generation, the agent, themes, and credits.

Themes

Change how the whole form looks.

​Anatomy of the editor

​Blocks on the canvas

​Questions

​Four places to control a form

​Preview, then publish

​Next steps