---
title: Text Piping
product: Form Library
description: Text piping is a technique of automatically inserting a respondent's answer from a previous question into a subsequent one. For example, if a respondent is asked to provide the name of their employee in one question, this name can be 'piped' into a subsequent question inquiring for more details about that employee. Piped text enables survey creators to personalize the survey experience for respondents. View a free demo for JavaScript to learn more.
framework: React
source: https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/text-piping-in-surveys/reactjs
index: https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/overview.md
---

# Text Piping (React)

Text piping enables you to dynamically insert text into questions and answers based on previous responses. Piped text can be used to personalize a survey (for example, you can address a respondent by their name) or simply to avoid re-entering already known information. In follow-up questions, piped text can be used to ask a respondent to indicate reasons behind their answer or elaborate on a brief response with further comments or details. In this demo, you are asked to enter contact information that is later used in a follow-up question about your preferred method of communication.

To use a previous response in a question title or choice item, simply insert the source question's [`name`](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/documentation/api-reference/question#name) in curly brackets into the [`title`](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/documentation/api-reference/question#title) property or a [choice item](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/documentation/api-reference/checkbox-question-model#choices)'s `text` property. View the configuration of the `"contactby"` question for a code example. If you want to learn more about dynamic texts in a survey, refer to the following help topic: [Dynamic Texts](/form-library/documentation/design-survey/conditional-logic#dynamic-texts).

## Files

### `public/index.html`

```html
<div id="surveyElement" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; min-height: 100%; height:100%"></div>
```

### `src/SurveyComponent.jsx`

```js
import React from "react";
import { Model } from "survey-core";
import { Survey } from "survey-react-ui";
import "survey-core/survey-core.min.css";
import "./index.css";
import { json } from "./json";

function SurveyComponent() {
    const survey = new Model(json);
    survey.onComplete.add((sender, options) => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(sender.data, null, 3));
    });
    return (<Survey model={survey} />);
}

export default SurveyComponent;
```

### `src/index.css`

```css
/* You can add your custom CSS here. */
```

### `src/index.js`

```js
import React from "react";
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import SurveyComponent from "./SurveyComponent";

const root = createRoot(document.getElementById("surveyElement"));
root.render(<SurveyComponent />);
```

### `src/json.js`

```js
export const json = {
  "elements": [
    {
      "type": "panel",
      "name": "contactinfo",
      "elements": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "name": "email",
          "title": "E-mail address",
          "inputType": "email",
          "autocomplete": "email"
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "name": "phone",
          "title": "Phone number",
          "inputType": "tel",
          "autocomplete": "tel"
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "name": "telegram",
          "title": "Telegram"
      }
      ],
      "title": "Contact Information",
      "isRequired": true
    },
    {
      "type": "checkbox",
      "name": "contactby",
      "visible": false,
      "visibleIf": "{email} notempty or {phone} notempty or {telegram} notempty",
      "title": "How we may contact you?",
      "isRequired": true,
      "choices": [
        {
          "value": "email",
          "text": "By e-mail: {email}",
          "visibleIf": "{email} notempty"
        },
        {
          "value": "phonecall",
          "text": "By a phone call: {phone}",
          "visibleIf": "{phone} notempty"
        },
        {
          "value": "sms",
          "text": "By SMS: {phone}",
          "visibleIf": "{phone} notempty"
        },
        {
          "value": "telegram",
          "text": "By Telegram: {telegram}",
          "visibleIf": "{telegram} notempty"
        },
        {
          "value": "dontcontact",
          "text": "I don't want to be contacted"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
 };
```

### `src/theme.js`

```js
export const themeJson = {};
```

### `package.json`

```json
{
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "latest",
    "react-dom": "latest",
    "survey-core": "latest",
    "survey-react-ui": "latest"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-scripts": "latest"
  }
}
```

## Other Frameworks

- [Angular](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/text-piping-in-surveys/angular.md)
- [Vue 3](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/text-piping-in-surveys/vue3js.md)
- [jQuery](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/text-piping-in-surveys/jquery.md)
- [Vanilla JS](https://surveyjs.io/form-library/examples/text-piping-in-surveys/vanillajs.md)