Hi I have a question form and in that form i have 10 sections and in those sections i have 8 dropdown entries so for section one i have q1a, q1b, q1c etc
I want the user to only answer 5 of the 8 questions within a section and I want them to select them from 1-5 without duplicating the answer.
Is this at all possible?
Take a look at JQuery validation plugins such as this one:
http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/
It will take considerable work to manually define the rules and logic, but it is definitely possible.
You would need a rule requiring 5 questions are answered. It may be helpful to create a logical group of input fields and then test which are blank.
You also need a rule to make sure that the values selected are not duplicated across select boxes.
In addition to what js1568 mentioned take a look at RSV.
It has javascript/php counterparts. The best part is that your rules are defined in javascript and php identically so it is easy to do server/client side validation with one set of rules just using two different languages.
That is if you are using php server side.