Question

I have some buttons below in my HTML:

<p>
<input class="answerBtns" name="answer" type="button" value="A" />
<input class="answerBtns" name="answer" type="button" value="B" />
<input class="answerBtns" name="answer" type="button" value="C" />
<input class="answerBtns" name="answer" type="button" value="D" />
<input class="answerBtns" name="answer" type="button" value="E" />
</p>

What I want to know if lets say I want the user to select 3 buttons for example, then if the user clicks on a button, it will highlight the button in a color (lets say green) but the user can only have three buttons selected. If an additional button is clicked then that button would not be selected. The additional button can only be selected if the user unselects a selected button and then selects the button he wishes. This means that only 3 buttons can be selected at maximum.

My question is that what functions in Javacsript can be used to be able to do this?

Thank You

Answer 1

Firstly, you have to give your buttons different names.

<input class="answerBtns" id="answer1" type="button" value="A" onclick="changeClass(this.id);" /> 
<input class="answerBtns" id="answer2" type="button" value="B" onclick="changeClass(this.id);"/> 
<input class="answerBtns" id="answer3" type="button" value="C" onclick="changeClass(this.id);"/> 
<input class="answerBtns" id="answer4" type="button" value="D" onclick="changeClass(this.id);"/> 
<input class="answerBtns" id="answer5" type="button" value="E" onclick="changeClass(this.id);"/>

What I would suggest is using jquery to change the class of the button to something like answerBtnsSelected when a button is selected this, will also help you with your css styles to highlight the button.

What you can then do is create a function that checks the amount of buttons with that class, and if it’s three or more then ignore or whatever, else change the class to make it selected.

Added logic to unselect button

function changeClass(id)
{
    if ($('#' + id).hasClass('answerBtnsSelected'))
        $('#' + id).removeClass('answerBtnsSelected');
    else
    {
        if ($('.answerBtnsSelected').length < 3)
        {
            $('#' + id).addClass('answerBtnsSelected');
        }
        else
        {
             alert('Only three buttons can be selected.');
        }       
    }
}