In fact, radio buttons are called radio buttons specifically because when you check one, you uncheck all others. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_button :

Radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older car radios to select preset stations – when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, leaving the pressed button the only button in the "pushed in" position.

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.comwrote:

Which extension?

In general, radio buttons don't work that way; you probably want checkboxes.

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Hi,

thanks a lot for all the replies. I understand that it is part of the definition of radio buttons to be able to select only 1 answer.

What we want to do is the following: Having 1 question and several predefined answers, of which you can select more than 1. I think this is neither possible with a dropdown menu (you can select only 1 answer, too). For checkboxes I was only able to create 1 answer per checkbox. So far I think the only way to implement our question is to use checkboxes and repeat the same question several times predefining each time a different answer.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks a lot and cheers,

Nadine

On 02/13/2013 07:03 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote:

Hey,

is there an opportunity to allow multiple responses for radio buttons in

...

the survey extension (checking more than 1 answer)?

Not if the input type is radio button. You can however make it a dropdown. For instance see the last question here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Survey-dialog.png

Cheers

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