How do I ?????

[Shaytar]

How do I make my radio buttons turn off? Like if you click one, and then change your mind, you should be able to click it again and turn it off. But it doesn't work!
And how do I make it so that they can only pick one radio button of several options?

Help!
Shaytar (who thought their survey was working very well, actually!)

[Deb]

Well there's the question of a lifetime hehe... I WISH you could... but you can not

Only check boxes will allow you to do that.

It's a matter of weighing the odds in deciding which one is best to use for different things...

With check boxes you can make multiple seclections and turn them on/off

With radio buttons you can only choose ONE item from the list but once you have selected something the only way to 'change your mind' is to select something else in the list... you never bring it back to no selection without reloading the page...

Hope this helps
Deb

[Shaytar]

Right. We figured it out actually. The problem was that you could check ALL of the radio buttons, when you only should have been able to click one, like you said.

So we looked at another survey's coding and figured out that the problem was that the names were all different for the same question. The names need to be the same and the values different.

Learn something new every day!
Thanks for responding Deb.

Shay

[pqwabbit]

ahh i didnt catch that at first - i was trying to figure it out myself cuz mine does what you want yours to do
kewl

Lea

[This message has been edited by pqwabbit (edited 11-12-98).]

[Shaytar]

Hey Lea

Yeah, we considered that too, and decided to remove the </INPUT>s.
They were in there cuz Note Tab will auto generate coding for you, but it does it with the </INPUT> tags.
*shrug*
But just taking them out didn't work, we had to rename them, like I said in our last post.
Everything's working the way it should now, though.

Shay

[pqwabbit]

yuppes i was just noticing you were missing the Value=
part on your radio tags

with multiple choice or even yes nos doesnt givng them all differnt names within one qusstion liek make coding and reading the log kinda tough?

like one questions for us has one name - x number of values whater we use checkboxes or radio buttons. so when we code the log template it just looks like this

1. [ie10]

if ya named all the questions one things diferent names wouldnt yuo have to throw in all that extra coding?
what goes inthat space is the "VALUE=" - so no need to create lots of differnt "NAME=" for one question.

Lea

[Del]

(I know, I'm answering way late)

The only way to reset a radio button to empty is by using the [reset] button (<input type=reset value=blah&gt Other than that, the only other way is with JavaScript, and I'm not totally sure of that...

Del

[Deb]

That's ok Del, we'll just deduct it from your pay

Note: hitting reset button if you use it of course resets the entire form also...

Deb

[Del]

LOL

I promise, I'll be on more when we get another phone line here. Dad gets real grumpy when we use his only phone too much...

Del

[Bekariso]

Hey Lea . . . to answer your question about the logs . . .

From watching over Shaytar's shoulder, we think she put the different names in like "2yes" or "2no" so the question number and the answer came back together. I think. Ow, headache. I'll stop thinking now.

Rana