Getting Started with Kiteform Forms

When you make your first form in Kiteform, you'll see it's made up of different "building blocks." Start typing to make a text block appear automatically, but there are many more types of blocks you can use!

To find out what kinds of blocks you can add, just type / in your form editor. This will show you all the blocks you can use and give you a list of shortcuts to help you build your form faster.

Create a New Form

Navigate to your Kiteform dashboard, and you'll find the + New form button on the top right. Click this button to start crafting your first form.

To begin, type your form's title and press enter. You can choose a form template from our gallery, but for simplicity, let's start from scratch. To add questions and answers:

• Click + or type / to see the available pre-made input blocks.
• Alternatively, add questions by typing /title or /label and select an answer field from the input blocks list—type /number to add an number field, for instance.

Select, Move, and Duplicate Blocks

• To move or duplicate blocks: Drag the question title or label to move all associated blocks. You can also select individual blocks for more precise adjustments.
• To delete blocks: Hover over a question title and click the trash icon, or select blocks and press backspace.
• To duplicate blocks: Click on a block you want to duplicate and press cmd/ctrl + D, or use the dotted icon for more options.

Make Questions Required or Optional

Questions are required by default, marked with a *. Click the * to toggle the required status or use the options icon next to the question block.

Block Options

Click :: on the left of an input block to open block options. Depending on the block, you can:

• Edit the question field name
• Hide the block
• Make the block required
• Add a default answer
• Duplicate or delete the block
• Set character limits
• Add images to multiple-choice questions
• Add conditional logic

Create a Multiple-Page Form

To add pages to your form, type /page. This allows you to separate your form into sections. You can rename the pages to reflect their content, with each page title automatically numbered to indicate sequence.

Add a Thank You Page

At the end of your form, you can add a custom Thank You page by toggling next to the last page title or typing /thank.

Preview and Publish

Before sharing your form, use the Preview button to see how it will look to respondents. When ready, click Publish to distribute your form.

Auto-Save Feature

Kiteform automatically saves your changes as you edit. It’s important to manually publish changes to make them live. A blue notification dot next to the Publish button indicates unpublished changes.

Discard Unpublished Changes

To revert your form to the last published version, click the Changes button.