Check to see if a radio button was selected

Is there a quick way without having to go through all the radio buttons?

[Jeremy_H]

I was reading that "Unfortunately it's not possible to see at once which radio button in a group the user has checked. You need to go through all radio's and see which one's checked property is true."

I was wondering if anybody knew if it was possible to check to see if there was at least a selection made (not which one) without having to go through all the radio buttons?

something like this:
if(document.form.group1.value!=""){};

[gph]

I assume you have lots of radio buttons and don't want to loop through them.

There isn't any group property I'm aware of. You could set a global variable to default false then true from each radio.

[Jeremy_H]

Thanks gph for your reply,

Yeah, I have lots of radio buttons for this form I'm constructing, and I'm trying to make my code as efficient as possible.

I did figure out something below that works:

...
else if(!(document.q.q316[0].checked¦¦document.q.q316[1].checked¦¦document.q.q316[2].checked¦¦document.q.q316[3].checked¦¦document.q.q316[4].checked)){alert("Please select field 316.");return false}
...

Now I'm just wondering if I can do something along the lines of this:

...
else if(!(document.q.q316[0-4].checked)){alert("Please select field 316.");return false}
...

Anyone know if something like this would be possible? Thanks.

[Bernard Marx]

I did figure out something below that works:

else if(!(document.q.q316[0].checked¦¦document.q.q316[1].checked¦¦document.q.q316[2].checked¦¦document.q.q316[3].checked¦¦document.q.q316[4].checked)){alert("Please select field 316.");return false}

IMHO, that's a bits nuts. It is isn't efficient is any sense - speed or amount of code.

document.q.q316[0-4].checked

Not possible.

Why not just loop the buttons?

function getRadioSelection(group) 
{ 
  for(var k=0;k<group.length;k++) 
    if(group[k].checked)  
       return group[k].value; 
} 
... 
getRadioSelection(document.q.q316);