I am creating a page that allows users access to a certain section of my website if they click 8 out of 25 checkboxes in the right sequence.
First of all thanks to Reigel for the code, its way better than what I initialy started with.
My question is, can the javascript code I have be optimized. For instance, the clearforms function, or anything else. I am a noob, just started to work with javascript 3 days ago, so any advice is appreciated.
My code is as follows:
<body onLoad="clearForms()" onUnload="clearForms()">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="check_combination.php">
<table width="200" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="1" /></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="2"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="3"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="4"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="5"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="6"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="7"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="8"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="9"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="10"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="11"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="12"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="13"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="14"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="15"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="16"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="17"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="18"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="19"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="20"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="21"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="22"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="23"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="24"/></td>
<td width="20" align="center" valign="middle"><input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="25"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="23" colspan="5" align="center" valign="middle" class="label"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="28" colspan="5" align="center" valign="middle"><input type="button" value="Test length" id="test" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="28" colspan="5" align="center" valign="middle"><input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="28" colspan="5" align="center" valign="middle"><input type="button" name="button" id="button2" value="Test hidden input value" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input name="result" type="hidden" id="result" />
</form>
</body>
And the javascript:
function clearForms() {
var i;
for (i = 0; (i < document.forms.length); i++) {
document.forms[i].reset();
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]:disabled').attr('disabled', false);
}
}
//initial checkCount of zero
var checkCount = 0;
//maximum number of allowed checked boxes
var maxChecks = 8;
$(document).ready(function() {
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]').click(function() {
//update checkCount
checkCount = $(':checked').length;
if (checkCount >= maxChecks) {
//alert('you may only choose up to ' + maxChecks + ' options');
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]').not(':checked').attr('disabled', true);
} else {
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]:disabled').attr('disabled', false);
}
if (this.checked) {
$("td.label").append('<label>' + this.value + ' </label>');
} else {
$("td.label").find(':contains(' + this.value + ')').remove();
}
$('input[name="result"]').val($("td.label").text());
});
$("#test").click(function() {
alert($(':checked').length)
});
$('#button2').click(function() {
alert($('input[name="result"]').val());
});
});
And this is the modified javascript per advice of Peter Ajtai (Thanks Again! To Peter, and Reigel the person who took the original code I had and rewrote it entirely to shorten it.)
function clearForms() {
var i;
for (i = 0; (i < document.forms.length); i++) {
document.forms[i].reset();
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]:disabled').attr('disabled', false);
}
}
//initial checkCount of zero
var checkCount = 0;
//maximum number of allowed checked boxes
var maxChecks = 8;
$(document).ready(function() {
clearForms();
var $nameCheckbox = $('input:checkbox[name=checkbox]');
$nameCheckbox.click(function() {
//update checkCount
checkCount = $('input:checked').length;
if (checkCount >= maxChecks) {
//alert('you may only choose up to ' + maxChecks + ' options');
$nameCheckbox.not(':checked').attr('disabled', true);
} else {
$nameCheckbox.filter(':disabled').attr('disabled', false);
}
if (this.checked) {
$("td.label").append('<label>' + this.value + ' </label>');
} else {
$("td.label").find(':contains(' + this.value + ')').remove();
}
$('input[name="result"]').val($("td.label").text());
});
$("#test").click(function() {
alert($('input:checked').length)
});
$('#button2').click(function() {
alert($('input[name="result"]').val());
});
});
One thing that jumped out at me…
To speed things up use:
instead of
This is because the first version look for checkboxes only among the
inputelements, the second version looks for checkboxes over all elements.Take a look at this speed comparison Nick Craver created to demonstrate the above for this answer.
Do this wherever possible, so use
$('input:checked').Also, there are several jQuery objects you create multiple times.
For example you use,
$(':checkbox[name=checkbox]')many times. Each time you recreate the same jQuery object, so do:Finally semantically, it makes more sense to remove the inline javascript, so replace:
with
and put
clearForm()inside the jQuery doc ready. The jQuery doc ready will fire beforewindow.onloadsinceonloadhas to wait for all images, etc to load. jQuery doc ready fires when the DOM is ready. You can also make use ofwindow.onunload, but I don’t quite understand why that’s necessary.