I am working on my quiz for my XHTML class and am having an issue with how it displays on the front end.

They are multiple choice questions with the following options (For one question):

However, if you take a look at this image, you can see how they are displaying.

dl.dropbox.com/u/145086/Quiz-1.png

How can I fix this?

Running Mad Blanks v1.8.1 on Joomla 2.5.3

When the characters < " > are used directly, they are translated into HTML entities and the extra semicolons interfere with separating the options. Try the following replacements:

replace < with [:lt:]
replace > with [:gt:]
replace " with [:quot:]

(Note that [:lquot:] is also available for a "literal quotation mark"; this can be useful sometimes in Score Scripts.)

So your list of options would be
You would use the same replacements in the default and correct answers that you may have specified.

OK, I am working on the second quiz for my students. I want them to put in the HTML code for a copyright symbol.

I seem to have 2 issues though.

First, when it displays the answers back after they complete, it shows the copyright symbol if you put in the correct answer. How do I make it display in plain text?

Secondly, the answer doesn't display properly either.
I have this in the correct answer field:

[:amp:]copy;

but it displays on the front end as

© and

You can set the correct answer as:

The tag [:lamp:] resolves to a literal ampersand, as opposed to the HTML entity that [:amp:] resolves to.

Regarding © showing up as the user's answer, I'll have to get back to you with a fix.

I considered changing the behavior in the new Mad Blanks 1.8.2 Beta 1 I just released, but decided against it to maintain consistency for existing applications.

What you can do, however, is if you know you're looking for HTML entities in the answers, use the replace tag in the Score Script.

So, where you would normally have the plain [:user_response:] tag inside an each:answer loop (like in Generic Score Script #1), use the following:

That will replace literal ampersands with the ampersand entity & in the user's answer so it won't show up as ©.

You can do the same thing with, for example, the [:correct_value:] tag (also inside the each:answer loop in Generic Score Script #1):

Does that make sense and seem reasonable? By the way, I did add a [:copy:] Score Script tag to Mad Blanks 1.8.2 Beta 1, so it will be there in future releases.

Thanks again Chris!

How do I format the score script for stripping white space, do I add it around the user_response just like the replace?