There were some changes made last week, in https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-35370, but they were tested quite carefully. Please can you attach a screen-grab that shows the problem.

Attaching screenshots, from demo.moodle.net and from my school moodle.
The hovering feedback is not appearing on local moodle.

I looked into the code and found out that the problem came form question/type/multianswer/renderer.php

I also compared revisions at github and the change which caused the problem was here - https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/d3187c299a14659bd5ec5ccc3e4a243ba3659583#question/type/multianswer/renderer.php

If you look the multianswer/renderer.php file changes, you will notice that $feedbackimg and $feedbackpopup are left out from label tag.

I changed those lines back and the feedback started to work again.

I made a little patch which fixed this.

Fred, please can you fix this regression you caused and get it in to this week's integration? Thanks.

The fix will involve editing question/type/multianswer/module.js, but given the changes you made to the HTML structure, it is not entirely clear how to do that, otherwise I would have done the fix.

Hi Tim,

I'd like some more input on your part for that. First thing is that I was trying to use the sample provided in the documentation but it outputs an endless notice (http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/question/type/multianswer#Example_2).

The second thing is that I am not sure how to efficiently work that out. I thought of creating a wrapping tag (div) around the whole subquestion, but it creates an HTML issue where some more styles are needed, and AFAIK we are not supposed to modify the stables too much. The other thing would be that the alignment of the overlay would not be proper, but I'm a bit scare to edit it as I would not like it to overlap the current display. We could use an inline such as a <span> but would that be HTML compliant (as it may contain block type tags).

And at last, I just realise that this feedback is not accessible. It should also popup on key focus, not only on mouse focus, and use aria attributes (master only surely).

I am willing to fix this ASAP but as you know this area better than anyone I think I could really use your wisdom here.

Thanks!

I often use that example question when testing, because copying it and pasting it is quicker than making up your own question, so it has worked until very recently. I also often refer to it in my testing instructions. I just tried re-creating that example question on my dev server, and it worked.

(What did the testing instructions on MDL-34570 say? Oh, I see. Not very good instructions. That will be why testing did not pick up the regression.)

I agree that the way multianswer does feedback is not great. You should have seen how badly it used to suck in 1.9 and before. This is not the time to try to fix the long-standing accessability issues there, though if you have any ideas about that later, we would love to know. This is the time to fix the regression you caused, as quickly and unobtrusively as possible.

It is clear what the JavaScript is trying to do, and why your changes broke it. If I had had time to fix it myself, I would have done so, but I have less than a week before I fly out to Australia, and things to finish before I do. That is why I asked you to think of the solution.

The one thing that occurs to me now is that <lable> is an inline tag. Therefore, if you just want to replace it with an equivalent tag, <span> should be safe.

I see the problem I had with the question sample provided, I did not click on "Decode and verify the question text", I thought this was an optional step.

This patch fixes the regression introduced.

Tim, please feel free to peer review it if you can find some time to do so.

Thanks!

+1. Thanks Fred.

Oh well.. i tried the 2 changes on my moodle installation and the problem still exists with the new patches applied..

It still works fine using the label tags.

Have you purged your cache (Moodle and Browser)?

Sorry, my mistake.. it works nice
I purged only my moodle installations cache and not my browsers cache..

Thanks for the fix!

I made a quick hack around in our moodle to tide us over until this fix lands. I edited only the js to account for the lack of nesting in the new html.

https://github.com/martinluther/moodle/commits/multianswerfeedback

Integrated (22, 23 and master)

Passing, the review now shows the feedback (status, correct, marks...) hovering. Not for all subtypes (MCV/MCH show the feedback "inline") but for the rest. I hope that's enough.

From somewhere within the clouds...

Congrats, this has been sent upstream and is now part of Moodle (your favorite LMS platform). Many thanks for your awesome collaboration!

Ciao