Problems Firefox retain answer, will retain same answer forever
June 3, 2009 12:00 AM
I'm having problems with a question that uses custom javascript to do some advanced evaluation of a given answer on a drag-drop question. The script which is included as external HTML object is invoked by using the 'navigate to' trick in an action. (setting target to Web Address and the Web Address to 'javascript:myFunction();")
This works fine using IE, but not when using Firefox. That is: not when using the 'retain question answer between session' option.
When this option is on, it seems like the variable containing the answer is not updated on the submit action. The script will evaluate to the same (previously entered) result no matter what answer is given. If however the 'retain' option is disabled, everything works fine.
No errors seem to occur when submitting etc.
Is this a known issue? (Can't find anything related on the forum, that is 'firefox retain' returns no results)
I'm having problems with a question that uses custom javascript to do some advanced evaluation of a given answer on a drag-drop question. The script which is included as external HTML object is invoked by using the 'navigate to' trick in an action. (setting target to Web Address and the Web Address to 'javascript:myFunction();")
This works fine using IE, but not when using Firefox. That is: not when using the 'retain question answer between session' option.
When this option is on, it seems like the variable containing the answer is not updated on the submit action. The script will evaluate to the same (previously entered) result no matter what answer is given. If however the 'retain' option is disabled, everything works fine.
No errors seem to occur when submitting etc.
Is this a known issue? (Can't find anything related on the forum, that is 'firefox retain' returns no results)
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