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1. NDP
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I am trying to include some form fields (checkboxes) in a post - and the default settings of some checkboxes are dependent on what the user selects for other checkboxes.

   So I tried inserting some javascript INLINE in some of my posts. This has worked very well for php, using the ExecPHP plugin. I initially tried a few simple examples, since I'm really a beginner at javascript, and they worked well too:

   http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_checkbox

   http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_image_src

   http://www.w3schools.com/Dhtml/tryit.asp?filename=trydhtml_intro

   Then I tried some examples of javascript functions I actually NEED, like manipulating checkbox settings onClick:

   http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_input_checked

   I also tried some similar functions from jQuery. No luck:

   http://www.electrictoolbox.com/check-uncheck-checkbox-jquery/

   They just do nothing. Nothing at all.

   Why is it that SOME javascript works fine - some javascript just doesn't do anything? No errors. Nothing.

   I can set my checkboxes to be interdependent based on php; but that requires a post and refresh, and by that time, the user's confused about the relationship between the checkbox. The user needs immediate feedback to "get" the relationship.

2. NDP
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Well, I've partially got some information on this;

   When I view-source on the scripts, WordPress is mung-ing the code with spurious <p> and </p> tags. Even though I'm using the html editor, I've got the visual editor turned off, I'm using ExecPHP.

   So I download the "text-control" plugin, and try that out, and guess what - it only works for posts. Not pages. Unless I set the setting site-wide.

   How inconvenient.

3. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript

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