Question

I am wondering whether you can make a button, function like a HTML Radio button. I am trying to create a form where the user clicks on the said button and a value is thus selected, but the user is not directed until selecting another option and submitting the form. Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

(I don’t mind the use of other languages including javascript etc.)

Answer 1

jQueryUI has a Button Widget that converts radio buttons or checkboxes into buttons.

Example from the site:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/button/#radio

<script>
$(function() {
    $( "#radio" ).buttonset();
});
</script>

<div class="demo">
    <form>
        <div id="radio">
            <input type="radio" id="radio1" name="radio" /><label for="radio1">Choice 1</label>
            <input type="radio" id="radio2" name="radio" checked="checked" /><label for="radio2">Choice 2</label>
            <input type="radio" id="radio3" name="radio" /><label for="radio3">Choice 3</label>
        </div>
    </form>
</div>

You can visit the link to see it in action.