The type property provides access to the TYPE attribute of the button.
This property is a read-only string that always contains button.
<html> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var buttonCount = 0;
for(var x=0; x<document.mathForm.length; x++) { if(document.mathForm.elements[x].type=="button") buttonCount++; } document.write("Please select one of the ",buttonCount);
document.write(" buttons above to find out the answer to the math problem.");