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I need to make a radio button mandatory on this html form

Hi

I have a form, I have made a checkbox mandatory and an alert comes up if it is not ticked.
I would like to do the same for a radio button (choice of 5) but cannot seem to get it to work.

thanks.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
function validate(frm) {
if (frm.checkbox.checked==false)
{
alert("You must read and consent to our privacy policy to send this form.");
return false;
}
}
// ]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="captcha.php" onSubmit="return validate(form);" name="form"> 
<textarea name="user_comments" cols="75" rows="5" id="user_comments"></textarea>
</p>
<p align="left" class="bold">Where did you hear
  about us?*</p>
<p align="left">
  <input type="radio" name="source" id="source" value="radio1">
  General Internet Search</p>
<p align="left">
  <input type="radio" name="source" id="source" value="radio2">
  Online  'Find a Financial Adviser'
  
  Directory via 'unbiased.co.uk.'</p>
<p align="left">
  <input type="radio" name="source" id="source" value="radio3">
  Nursing Home Database (ucarewecare.com)</p>
<p align="left">
  <input type="radio" name="source" id="source" value="radio4">
  Care Provider (please state which one)
  <input name="care_provider_source_is" type="text" id="radio4_source_is" size="55" maxlength="55">
</p>
<p align="left">
  <input type="radio" name="source" id="source" value="radio5">
  Other (please state):
  <input name="other_source_is" type="text" id="radio5_source_is" size="75" maxlength="75">
</p>
<p class="bold">Please press the buttons below
  to confirm that you have read our <a href="#privacypolicy">privacy
  policy</a><br>
  and to submit
  your request. </p>
<p align="left"><span class="bold">
  <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" id="checkbox" value="1">
  </span>I/We have read and consent to your privacy policy*</p>
<p align="left" class="smalltext">The fields marked * are mandatory.</p>
<table width="549" class="bigone">
  <tr class="style1">
    <td colspan="2" align="center"> Ready ? Ok, but before you click 'Send Form' please insert the same letters and numbers you see in the image on the left into the box on the right.<br /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="style1">
    <td width="267" align="center"><p> <img src="captcha_image.php" /></td>
    <td width="270" align="center"><input type="text" name="captcha_input" size="15"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p>
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Please Press Here to Submit Your Request">
</body>
</html>

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JohnSixkiller

Hi, you have 2 options. The easy way is to make some default selection by adding "checked" to html radio.

To javascript check:

var rbs = document.getElementsByName("source");
var isOK = false;
for(var i=0; i<rbs.length; i++){
  if(rbs[i].checked){
     isOK = true;
     break;
  }
}
if(!isOK) alert("Select something.");

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sp0tta

ASKER

Hi

I would prefer to make sure the checked button was chosen by the user.

thanks

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sp0tta

ASKER

Perfect, quick and easy

thanks.