Ray — Thu, 21 Oct 1999 03:03:00 +0000

Thanks a million Lloyd!! I'll try the JavaScript you suggested!

As for radio buttons coming back into style - well, I like 'em cause from a marketing standpoint, they are more inviting to entice the user to interact with the page. They pull the user in to making a choice from several options - I think they can be very effective used under the right circumstances.

Thanks again!! I'll let you know how it works on my page!

Ray

Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:16:00 +0000

You can do this with JavaScript and it is really quite easy to implement.

INSERT BETWEEN <HEAD></HEAD> TAGS

function navigate() {
if (document.radioForm.selection[0].checked) {
window.location.href = "URL 1";
}
else {
window.location.href = "URL 2";
}
}

INSERT BETWEEN <BODY></BODY> TAGS

<form name="radioForm">
<input name="selection" type="radio"> OPTION 1
<input name="selection" type="radio"> OPTION 2
</form>

<a href="javascript:navigate()"><img src="URL"></a>

* Note i have not used
<input type="image" src="dir/img.gif" border="0"> as JP suggested. I think this way is easier.

I have answered many radio questions recently - are they back in fashion?

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Ray — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks Patrick for your help!! And JP - for telling me how to change the input button to my own graphic.

The help was very much appreciated!!

Ray

Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:18:00 +0000

and here comes my CGI-solution:
put the button and the radios into a form and link it to this cgi script using method get:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$foo = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
if ($foo = "button\=sound" ){print"Location: http://blah blah/sound.html"}
else {print"Location: http://blah blah/image.html"}
exit;

Federico, any backslashes missing?
later
patrick

Ray — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:28:00 +0000

Thanks JP for your response!! It was helpful to know how to change the input button into an image.

To take it a bit further, when the user clicks on that input button, I want them to be able to go to a linked page - or an audio file, depending on which radio button they choose.

Is that possible?

Thanks again JP!

JP Stones — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:13:00 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean but for an img equivalent of an input button use:
<input type="image" src="dir/img.gif" border="0">

JP

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