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title: "Section Field Type"
url: "https://help.formsfly.com/en/article/section-field-type"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-07-10T13:38:45.145Z"
---

# Section Field Type

The Section field is a read-only field type that allows you to display static or dynamic text and/or images.

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![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/83ef706c-2e29-4e9d-8188-276d972b5be3)

The texts or images could provide additional information or instructions to aid the user in completing their task. The section header can also be used to create a distinct separation between groups of data capture fields in the app.

Any text or images visible in the field are purely for in-app display purposes and are not saved in submitted form entries. Hence, referencing the Section field’s data name in a custom output template will display no text or images

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## Displaying Text

Single or multi-lined text can be displayed **statically** by entering it into the Title or Hint Text property.

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/c0e222e9-9458-422e-918f-a590aa452d39)

Or **dynamically** by referencing other field data names with or without static text.

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/b4ee7a08-8e81-4a4f-86f2-601314a3ae3c)

These other fields could also have a formula in their Dynamic Value property that builds the desired text/calculations, or they could be bound to a data source column.

To display a pipe-separated list of values as line items with each item on a separate row in the section field, replace the “**|**” value in the list with a “n” character to have each item in the list display on its own row/line.

For example, if you had a Choices field set to multiple-choice, when a user selects multiple values, the Choices field’s value becomes a pipe-separated list of values, **value1|value2|value3**, etc.

To place each value on a new line for display purposes, you could use a REPLACE() function.

Function:

```plaintext
REPLACE(input, pattern, replacement) 
```

Example:

```plaintext
REPLACE({{list}}, '|', 'n')
```

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## Displaying Images

The **Static Image** property allows images to be uploaded and displayed in the Section field. This could be used to display a company logo or form-identifying image on the first page of your form or supporting imagery for data capture fields the user needs to interact with.

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/1bc48a61-de89-4d40-9a6f-4981168b6cba)

Alternatively, with the **Dynamic Image** property, images can be dynamically driven in a few ways depending on where your images reside:

-   **Other Form Fields**  
    Another field in the form’s design contains an image like a Media or Sketch field by referencing the field’s dataname.  
    i.e., {{mediaField}}
-   **Data Sources**  
    Referencing a [data source column (image type)](https://help.formsfly.com/en/article/using-image-columns) to display the relevant image based on a user’s selection from a Choices field or data source filtering.  
    i.e., {{choicesfield\[4\]}}
-   **External Systems**  
    Pull images from [external systems using a full URL](https://help.formsfly.com/en/article/dynamically-displaying-images-from-data-source-web-or-map-sources), which can be a static path or dynamically populated from user input.  
    i.e.,  
    https://www.somedomain.com/folder/filename.jpg  
    CONCAT(‘http://myexamplesite.com/’, {{myfield}}, ‘.jpg’)

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/35264394-382b-47b2-b051-214fc8b28c53)