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Making a multiple choice quiz question with radio buttons


Karriz

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I'm currently making a quiz-like math test site, and I use text field forms, and Javascript to check the answer. This is the code I currently have for text forms: <html> <head><title>Test</title> <script type="text/javascript">function validateForm(){var x=document.forms["Answer"]["Check answer"].value;if (x=="2"){alert("You're right, 2 is the correct answer!");;}else{alert("Wrong answer, 2 is correct.");;}} </script></head> <body> How much is 1+1? <form name="Answer"onsubmit="return validateForm()" method="post"><inputname="Check answer" value=""><br> <br><input value="Check answer" type="submit"><br></form> </body></html> Now I'd like to make questions which have multiple choices, like: a: 2b: 56c: 1 I know this should be possible with radio buttons, but simply changing the form type doesn't make it work. I don't have any real coding experience so I'd be really thankful if somebody could help. Edit: for some reason I can't put the html inside quote tags.

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If this is purely Javascript and no PHP involved then there is no need for the <form> element. However, if it is purely Javascript, anybody can just look at the source code to see the answers. The name attribute is not valid on the <form> element. It is an old and deprecated way to access forms. You should use HTML DOM methods getElementsByTagName() and getElementById(). Here's a question and a way to access its elements:

<fieldset id="question1">    <legend>What is the answer to this question?</legend>    <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="right"> Right answer</label>    <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="wrong"> Wrong answer</label></fieldset><input type="button" id="answer"><script type="text/javascript">    document.getElementById("answer").onclick = validate;    function validate() {	    var radios;	    var i;	    var right;	    radios = document.getElementById("question1").getElementsByTagName("input"); 	    right = false;	    for(i = 0; i < radios.length; i++) {		    if(radios[i].value == "yes" && radios[i].checked == true) {			  right = true;		    }	    } 	    if(right) {		    alert("You answered correctly");	    } else {		    alert("Wrong answer");	    }    }</script>

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In HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, the name attribute was not available in the Strict doctype. According to W3Schools, it seems like it has been retained in the HTML 5 specification.

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Well you can do something like this;

 

<input type="radio" name="gender"  value="Male" /><input type="radio" name="gender"  value="Female" />    function () {    var gender = document.getElementsByName("gender");    var answer;    for (var i = 0; i < gender.length; i++) {        if (gender[i].checked === true) {            answer = gender[i].value;            break        }     }    if (answer == "Male") {        alert("true")    } else {        alert("false")    } };
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This topic comes up in these forums regularly, so you could search for old answers. After playing with Foxy's approach from 2 1/2 years ago I came up with this version...

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"/><title>title</title><style>.rightans{border:3px solid #0f0;background-color: #afa;}.wrongans{border:3px solid #f00;background-color: #faa;}</style><script>window.onerror = function(m, u, l){alert('Javascript Error: '+m+'nURL: '+u+'nLine Number: '+l);return true;}</script><script>'use strict';window.onload = init;function init() {document.getElementById('btn').onclick = validate;document.getElementById('btnclr').onclick = clear;}function validate() {var radios = document.getElementById("quiz").getElementsByTagName("INPUT");var right = 0;var wrong = 0; for(var i=0, len=radios.length ; i<len ; i++) {  if(radios[i].value == "x") {    if(radios[i].checked == true){      right++;      radios[i].parentNode.parentNode.className = 'rightans';    }else{      wrong++;      radios[i].parentNode.parentNode.className = 'wrongans';    }  }} var pcnt = (100*right/(wrong+right)).toFixed(1);document.getElementById("score").innerHTML = 'Correct: '+ right +'<br/>Incorrect: ' + wrong +'<br/>Percent Correct: ' + pcnt +'%';}function clear(){var radios = document.getElementById("quiz").getElementsByTagName("INPUT");for(var i=0, len=radios.length ; i<len ; i++) {radios[i].checked = false;if (radios[i].value == "x"){ radios[i].parentNode.parentNode.className = '';}}document.getElementById("score").innerHTML = '';}</script></head></body><div id="quiz"><h1>Quiz</h1><fieldset id="q1"> <legend>Question 1</legend> <legend>What is the answer to this question?</legend> <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="p"/>Wrong answer1</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="x"/>Correct answer</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="y"/>Wrong answer2</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="m"/>Wrong answer3</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q1" value="f"/>Wrong answer4</label></fieldset><fieldset id="q2"> <legend>Question 2</legend> <legend>What is the answer to this question?</legend> <label><input type="radio" name="q2" value="r"/>Wrong answer1</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q2" value="s"/>Wrong answer2</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q2" value="l"/>Wrong answer3</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q2" value="x"/>Correct answer</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q2" value="r"/>Wrong answer4</label></fieldset><fieldset id="q3"> <legend>Question 3</legend> <legend>What is the answer to this question?</legend> <label><input type="radio" name="q3" value="d"/>Wrong answer1</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q3" value="g"/>Wrong answer2</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q3" value="j"/>Wrong answer3</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q3" value="e"/>Wrong answer4</label><br/> <label><input type="radio" name="q3" value="x"/>Correct answer</label></fieldset></div><input type="button" id="btn" value="Check Answers"/><input type="button" id="btnclr" value="Clear"/><h2 id="score"></h2></body>    </html>
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