Need help validating a multi-field form for an educational game

[ransomcat]

Hello,

I'm working on a cryptogram game for an educational site. The cryptogram will be displayed like scrabble tiles, and letter will have a corresponding text box. So for a five-letter word, there will be five scrabble tiles with five small text boxes beneath for students to fill in individual letters. At the end there will be a validate button that tells them if they have all the letters right or not.

I found a reference to this solution in the forum: http://www.clickfind.com.au/javascri...tion/index.cfm. It looks to me like this will work but I can't figure out how to modify it to check for specific values.

I've posted an example of my table below in case it's useful to a helpful person out there. I realize it's not much of a start.

Thanks in advance for your help,

ransomcat

<form>

<table id="cryto_one" class="crypto" cols="15">
	<tr>
		<td><img src="tiles/20wide/4.gif" /></td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td><img src="tiles/20wide/!.gif" /></td> <td><img src="tiles/20wide/3.gif" /></td>   
	</tr>

        <tr>
		<td><input name="four" type="text" class="crypto_letter" /></td> <td></td> <td><input name="exclam" type="text" class="crypto_letter" /></td> <td><input name="3" type="text" class="crypto_letter" /></td>
         </tr>

</table>

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

</form>

[Old Pedant]

What's the definition of "got all the letters right"???? Guessed the meaning of each tile??

But if your JS code can tell them that, then all anybody has to do is VIEW-->>SOURCE to see the HTML of the page and then they can get it perfect each and every time.

So doing this all in JS is tantamount to giving away the answers.

And how can anybody solve a 5-letter cryptogram except by wildly random luck?

[ransomcat]

Thanks for replying, Old Pedant.

The five letters were just to serve as an abbreviated example. But to answer your first question, yes. I understand what you mean about the view source issue. Guess I hadn't thought that far ahead.

Can you recommend another avenue to head down?

Thanks,

ransomcat

[Old Pedant]

Use server-side code to do the scoring.

PHP or ASP or JSP or whatever.

You might still want to use JS to ensure that the person has indeed put *something* into each field, and maybe make sure it's a letter. But no more than that.