vibe-surveyDocs

Public Link Fallback

Public Survey Link resolves style at runtime. The fallback protects respondent rendering when a survey has no explicit saved style selection or the saved style snapshot is not safe to inject.

Runtime rule

  • If a normalized saved style selection exists, Survey Link uses that selection’s CSS snapshot and built-in background metadata when available.
  • If there is no saved selection, or the saved CSS snapshot/style text cannot be normalized safely, Survey Link falls back to the built-in classic-clean preset.
  • This fallback does not change the stored style selection, Style Mode draft state, or authored CSS. It only determines the public runtime CSS for that render.

Authoring implications

Style Mode can preview, duplicate, save, and apply built-in or custom styles. To make a public link deterministic, save and apply the intended style. If no explicit safe selection exists, respondents still receive the Classic Clean runtime instead of an unstyled page.

Boundaries

The style fallback affects presentation under the Survey Link style scope only. It does not change answers, validation, Overlay language resolution, redirect selection, quota/status logic, response persistence, or export projection.