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Field settings and card sides

Field settings control how content appears and behaves. The deck template supplies defaults; an individual card can override supported settings without changing every other card.

Choose a card side

Set placement in the deck template using the field's side selector.

SideUse it for
FrontThe question, prompt, or material you see before answering
BackThe answer or information revealed after recall
BothContext that should appear on both faces, such as a sentence or image
NoteExtra explanation, sources, or mnemonics opened through the notes control

In Flashcard review, the notes control is available on the answer side when the card has note content. Choosing Reversed in study settings swaps the question and answer faces; it does not rewrite field placement in the template.

Cloze Deletion and Image Occlusion are restricted to Both. Their front/back distinction comes from masking and revealing the same content.

Change settings for one card

  1. Open the card editor.
  2. Tap the gear beside the field you want to adjust.
  3. Turn off Use Template Settings to change settings that are otherwise inherited.
  4. Adjust General Settings or the field's Specific Settings.
  5. Return to the card editor, preview the result, and tap Save or Add Card.

The field-settings screen updates the open editing session; it is not a separate save destination. Field type and deck-wide structure are edited under Deck Detail → Deck Setting → Deck Template.

Chinese and Japanese pronunciation overrides are specific to a card's text. These override inputs are available in card editing when applicable, even when other presentation settings come from the template.

Hide a field without deleting its content

Turn on Hidden under General Settings to omit the field from normal card displays. The editor keeps the field and its saved value. This can be useful for imported source data that you want to retain but not show during recall.

Hiding is different from choosing Note: note content is intentionally available through the notes control. It is also different from deleting a template field, which removes stored values across the deck.

Restore settings

Reset to Default restores the field-settings baseline for the current editing context. For a card, Use Template Settings is the direct way to return to the deck's current defaults. Save the enclosing card or template after making changes.

Field-specific controls

The controls depend on the field type. Examples include audio autoplay, TTS source and language, annotation visibility for Japanese/Chinese, code highlighting and wrapping, and TeX scaling.

Use the field reference to find the controls and examples for each type.