Hi all. Please, can someone help me with this problem. I have created a table with multiple questions applied. The same page I have added a form for the answers to be entered. How do I link from question X to answer X and back to next question etc, without having the user scroll back and forth? I look forward to any help available... thank you.

Why not have the answer right under the question? It makes it a lot easier. The way I'm understanding it you have all the qeustion together, then all the answers together. If that's it, then it's a pain.

But to answer your question, put <a name="sumin">text</a> in there. Change as needed. The address for the link would read <a href="site.com/page.php#sumin> Rest is pretty basic.

I gave that a thought but took into account the number of questions, a clue that applied to each question and the amount of fields that applied to the submit form... i e. email addie, user name, title/topic, ID code, weblink name and answer.
But you have given me an idea... if I created pages that had approx... 5 questions and accompanied answer field form... that may do it. Though that would mean user would need to submit form 5 times to complete all questions with accompanied answers etc..... hmmmmm. ... oh well! I'll just reduce the amount of questions and apply submit button after every 3rd question/answer. Thank you for assistance, greatly appreciated.

Hey Kiwiluck,

Nice to see other people from NZ.

I'm still trying to figure out what you mean.

Are you saying you have the questions, and then underneath all the questions, you have the fields for them to fill in to answer them, is that what you mean by answers, or is it the solution to the questions?

Anyways, what I do understand is hyperlinking within the same page, more commonly called bookmarking.

Here's just an example:

<div id="first_question">Here's the first questions? <a href="#first_answer">To answer it click here</a></div>
<div id="second_question">Here's the second question? <a href="#second_answer">To answer it click here</a></div>
... (imagine this fills the page leaving a place to answer at the bottom) ...
<input id="first_answer" name="first_answer" type="text" /> <a href="#second_question">Click here to read second question</a>
...

This is just linking within pages, by using <a href="#???"> where ??? is the id attribute of where you want to go within the page.

If that's not what you mean, then from what I gather, you ask questions, have a field to fill in with answers and also have a place to check solutions.

If that's the case, you can use the above, but I feel there's no point in scrolling, you can actually hide the answers unless they click for solution. e.g.

<label>Question 1: What is the Capital of New Zealand?</label> <input id="q1" name="q1" type="text" /><br />
<a href="#a1" onclick="javascript:document.getElementById('a1').style.display = (document.getElementbyId('a1').style == 'none') ? 'block' : 'none';">(Click here for solution)</a><br />
<div id="a1" style="display:none;">Wellington</div>

What this does is I'm hiding the solutuion, if they click on the solution link, it wil then appear underneath the question, click again, it'll hide it.

Maybe I've missed what you were wanting, if you can provide examples of what you're doing, then I might be able to help if I have not helped already.

Cheers,

MC

oops... sorry for lack of clarification... user has to input the answer also the accompanied fields - title/topic, ID code, weblink name, must apply with each question when user decides what the answer may be...reason for each of those fields - title/topic is that ensures the answer came from that webpage, weblink ensures answer from site and ID code ensures that the answer submitted refers to those questions for that week.... hmmm do hope thats better understood... thank you for welcome!

It sounds like you're creating a treasure hunt within your own website, or am I way off.

If you could provide source or the site in question, that would probably help me understand what you want.

What I'm thinking is, you require information that the user either has to put in, or at least should be sent with the answer, if that's the case you'll probably want hidden fields to handle this. Unless you also require the user to insert this information too.

I work better with seeing code.

Cheers,

MC

Hi... Thank you for your reply and yes, a treasure hunt..kinda..( interaction from user is more indepth) The concept is similar but the use of other websites we network with enables this to happen. Please, visit kiwiquest.co.nz and go to FAQ section. This will give an indication of what and why the format(creating an appropriate form etc) is so important.

Greatly appreciate your assistance, from 1 kiwi to another.
PS.. would you know how I can stop multiple spam listing, in the guestbook ? I initiated all in admin area and even tho its slowed down the spam entries, I'm still getting them. Drastic scenario is the removal of guestbook, I quess.

OK I understand your concept, but how you choose to deal with it is entirely up to you.

It seems that you want to list possible links that have the answer for the questions you'll be asking, and you don't want the links to actually take them away from the form but possibly open up in a new window so that they are still sitting at their form.

There is the HTML anchor method of using the target="_blank" which opens up the link in a new page, this is deprecated though and in XHTML the only way without breaking standards is using javascript to open the new window.

As for the guestbook problem, there's many ways of preventing spam, usually it should be the person who coded the guestbook to work on these means or at least someone who can code to fix the script.

Some things to consider is only members are allowed to post in the guestbook, the time that this person submitted should be disallowed for submitting again, a certain time limit say half a minute to a minute is quite good, but can get users frustrated, though they should not need to post more than one entry so you could make sure that only unique visitors are allowed to post, it's not like a chat system. Links should not be allowed to be posted and the only links that should be allowed are those that are in their profile, though it still not spam proof, it eliminates the guest spammers.

Another technique that I know of which is actually used in email scanning technology is the spam probability, where it scans what is sent and measures the amount of keywords that would be spam, if it's high, then it's most likely spam, I'm sure someone would have done something like this to prevent spamming on their sites.

There's also a spam blacklist you can get hold of which lists common IP addresses of spammers, so you could load that list for blocking known spammers, which can help prevent it too.

Other than this, usually the only thing you can do is monitor the guestbook and just remove spam as soon as you can, could also create a link in your guestbook that allows guests to submit to you if someone has posted spam on it.

Cheers,

MC

Thank you! I have iniated removal of guestbook and in the process of looking at other guestbooks which will have features to provide spam deterrant, hopfully. I greatly appreciate your assistance, thank you again, from 1 kiwi to another.

Originally Posted by mastercomputers

There is the HTML anchor method of using the target="_blank" which opens up the link in a new page, this is deprecated though and in XHTML the only way without breaking standards is using javascript to open the new window.

Not true. If you have the doctype set to Transitional you can use it.