While working on the Atlas survey form I noticed that Internet Explorer has problems with the validation of radio elements. This is probably true of checkboxes, but I haven't taken the time to investigate the extent of the problem. I've made a note to correct this.
In the meantime I've worked out a kludge.
In the ASP or HTML file where the form is located:
The number of fields to be validated is counted when the form is set up and placed in the intFormFieldCount variable. Basically the count goes like this: one for each text, textarea, file, password, select-one, and select-multiple elements; the length of the array for radio and checkbox elements.
In the validate.js file:
The script was already set up to count the number of elements that have been validated and place that number in the intValidated variable. The count will show up the same as the above because I parse through the form using the elements array instead of each validation element name. I've added some code that allows IE to skip the validation of radio form elements. After all the elements have been tested the file compares the intValidated variablee with the intFormFieldCount variable and if the former is less then the hidden form element intValidated is not set to true.
Basically what this boils down to is that if any radio form elements are to be validated then the count for IE will be less than the total and the form will be submitted as not validated, allowing the ASP companion script will take over validation chores.
