Branding the looks of a sharepoint 2010 survey

Question

I came across the following article which was very good as a starter to branding surveys: SharePoint Kings. However I don't think that this is a very neat approach of how to brand a survey. Is there another way to do same things as described in the article by means of an application page or webpart??

Also tried with sharepoint designer to create a new display form but all i saw was the following: so couldn't figure out how to edit each question.

I know that surveys are lists but cannot picture in my mind how I can customize the page to show in a branded way.

Answer 1

If you add "tokens" to your survey questions, you can use javascript to convert them into tags, and then use css to render the styles. For example, #b#somestyle#/b# and javascript can search the question and replace the tokens with somestyle after the page has been loaded.

You can put the replacement routine in a function, and call it with

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("someFunction");

which will cause it to load after sharepoint has built and displayed the page.

see here for info on the replacement script: http://www.sharepointkings.com/2009/08/creating-and-working-with-survey-in_7080.html

Another option would be to edit NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, etc. in InfoPath Designer - but that is only good if you are using Sharepoint Enterprise.