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Create a web-survey using javascript.

  • Advice on using Javascript and JQuery to create a web-survey. I want to create a survey on a website that has 5 - 8 questions, and multiple-choice answers. At the moment I am planning to use Javascript and a bunch of forms and radio-buttons. I have the overall structure working for a simple case (user ticks various radio buttons, clicks submit and the data + cookie info is loaded into a database using a JQuery post command). However, I don't have a good strategy for formatting the button positions and I'm not sure if there is a better way of organizing the radio-buttons. Also, some of the questions will have pictures above the radio-buttons. I am using CSS, but I'm finding the individual button text to be a little tricky to handle as it varies in length. I would appreciate any pointers on how best to improve this. I feel like there might a library out there that already handles some of the browser side organization but I haven't been able to find it though googling.

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    Check out http://jqueryui.com/ for more "standardized" widgets and controls.

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Do you really need this level of control over the code/form? Otherwise, you might want to check out one of many hosted form solutions out there, e.g. Wufoo, Google Docs, FormSite, JotForm, etc.

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urbanwhaleshark

I recently used this http://www.fromthedesk.com/script.php?sid=12 script (using PHP and XML) when I needed to create a quiz that would have photos (or videos) as part of the quiz questions. This script made it easy to control the formatting via CSS too. Since it requires PHP, you couldn't use this script to run the quiz offline (the way that, say, you potentially could with a Javascript-only script), but I don't know if that's important to you. Just FYI!

lgandme0717

Without an example of the pictures, questions, and answers that you will provide, it is hard to determine what the best layout would be.

jasondigitized

Thanks Blazecock Pileon, that was the encouragement I needed to try using jQuery UI. It's great!

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