[TriLUG] Slightly OT: "feeling thermometer" in HTML

[Jon Carnes]

You could go a few routes:

 - Use a line similar to what you have below with 25 periods before 50
and 25 after 50, and make each period a different url of the type:
  http://www.my.site/cgi?poll_value=20
Where the values increment by 2 with each period.

- Simply have the user fill the value in a field and then click a button
to post it.


On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:24, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Sorry if this is too far afield. I'm working on a page for a survey we're
> about to start administering.  One of the questions is:
> 
> "Please indicate on the following scale where you feel the value of using
> the internet to gather informatino is compared to using the internet to
> communicate with others. The middle of the scale indicates an even
> balance, the far left indicates a stronger value for gathering
> information, and the far right indicates a stronger value for
> communicating with others."
> 
> 0..........................50.........................100
> gathering                                      communicating
> information                                    with others
> 
> The protocol for the survey requires that it be available both online and
> in its paper form, and the paper form is the "master", so I can't change
> the question form. Can anyone suggest a good way to implement this in HTML
> (even better, from within perl CGI.pm)?  Clearly 100 radio buttons will
> spill over beyond one line.  I'm open to nearly any suggestion, but of
> course it must be browser-independent (within the domain of graphical
> browsers) and able to be served by a debian/apache server.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> Andy
> 
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