Wrapping long text in form UI

Ravish Shetty
Tera Guru

Please note that we have been asked not to do DOM manipulation to solve this issue. 

Also changing the text to shorten the length is not possible.

I am building a table which have check box fields with long labels. The problem here is how do we display them in a way which is pleasant to users

I have tried 3 ways and here are the issues

1) the usual way. it looks like this. customers do not like it.

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2) tried blanking out the labels and using annotations. doesn't look good either.

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3) used annotations in one column and check-boxes in another. this would have worked but it creates a new issue where the labels are not aligned with the check-boxes so the users will get confused as to which question refers to which check box.

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Slava Savitsky
Giga Sage

Best practice is to keep labels short and use Hint field in the Field Label record for providing additional information. Hint text pops up when the cursor rests on the field.

thanks. seems like that is the only option.